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Can other medicines cause melanosis coli?
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Yes: Although pathology textbooks focus on cascara laxatives as the cause of blackening of the colon mucosa by pigment in macrophages, the truth is that any laxative that works by damaging the colonic epithelium can do the same thing.
Answered 11/28/2017
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