“…Toxic megacolon was initially described as a complication of ulcerative colitis, then in various forms of colitis: inflammatory, ischemic, infectious, after x-ray, unspecific colitis secondary to chemotherapy [18,19], complication of the collagenous colitis [20,21], colitis from the Behcet syndrome [22,23], Kaposi syndrome [24] and pseudomembranous colitis after therapy with methotrexate.…”