Baseball player Fred Dunlap’s cause of death is listed as “Tubercular Distended Rectum.”
Uh…what is that, exactly?
Dunno, but it sounds like it could be a metal band name.
I’m no medical expert, but you can get gastric TB, and one of my pets had a distended rectum. It’s when your butthole and your colon push out of your body.
It sounds like he had both and the combo killed him.
You’re saying his rectum damn near killed him?
Best post of the year.
Just so poor Fred is known for something other than his Tubercular Distended Rectum, it should be pointed out that he hit .412 for the 1880 champion St. Louis Maroons, and played alongside such all-time greats as Buttercup Dickerson, Pretzels Getzien and Phenomenal Smith.
Huh. And his nickname was Sure Shot.
I’d bet he had a tuberculous mass in the abdomen which eroded into or obstructed the rectum, resulting in death.
Or tuberculous involvement of the anorectal region, resulting in a mass with obstruction and proximal rectal dilatation, resulting in death.
“Primary intestinal tuberculosis is usually because of bovine tubercle bacilli through milk. Decreased incidence of primary tuberculosis has been seen due to pasteurization of milk. Rectal TB can present with annular stricture or with ulceration of mucosa with fibrosis.”
http://www.abdominalsurg.org/journal/2013/tuberculosis-rectum-mimicking-malignancy.html
Seeing that raw milk is becoming more popular in the U.S., maybe we’ll get to see additional examples of this lovely complication in the future. :eek:
Yes, that’s what I thought of - mycobacterium bovis infection transmitted through milk, a once common problem that was pretty much eradicated by pasteurization.
Oh yeah, that. I hate when that happens.
I remember, back in med school (decades and decades ago now) getting it drilled into my head that TB should be on virtually every differential diagnosis list we came up with, since it caused damn near every symptom. That and syphilis.
At least you know that it is never Lupus… 
Or a pretty decent SDMB user name.
I’m really tempted to PM TubaDiva and ask for that one.
Except when it is. Remember, House got expelled from Johns Hopkins . . .
In Russia, Tubercular Distended Rectum expels you.
Regards,
Shodan
I thought that was a prolapse? Although I suppose a prolapse could somehow be a complication due to distended rectum.
You would be correct. Distended rectums may prolapse, but prolapsed rectums need not be distended. Extended, certainly. But not necessarily distended.