Intestinal Perforation and Widespread Arteritis in Rheumatoid Arthritis during Treatment with Cortisone

Abstract

Perforations of the small and large intestines in patients under treatment with cortisone have not often been reported, and the few cases recorded usually have had coexisting intestinal disease. Sloan, Briggs, and Halsted (1951) report one case of intestinal perforation, Tulin, Kern, and Almy (1952) three cases