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Radiation proctitis
Disease definition
Radiation proctitis is a rare rectal disease directly induced by pelvic radiotherapy and characterized by rectal bleeding, change in bowel habits, tenesmus and sepsis.
ORPHA:70475
Classification level: Disorder- Synonym(s): -
- Prevalence: 1-5 / 10 000
- Inheritance: Not applicable
- Age of onset: Adult
- ICD-10: K62.7
- ICD-11: DB33.42
- OMIM: -
- UMLS: C0400827
- MeSH: -
- GARD: -
- MedDRA: 10037766
A summary on this disease is available in Deutsch (2012) Español (2012) Français (2012) Italiano (2012) Nederlands (2012)
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