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Identifying Visceral Kaposi Sarcoma (KS): A Responsibility to Avoid Anchoring on the Diagnosis of a Crohn’s Flare

The initial evaluation of reported inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) should include an assessment for immunosuppression which can broaden the differential diagnosis to include opportunistic infection as well as other processes. Here we present an exceedingly rare case of a patient with a self-reporte...

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Autores principales: Seltzer, Emily S, Shenoy, Shabari M, Yoon, Bo Hyung, Rozenshteyn, Frederick, Cavaliere, Kimberly
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10019902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36938235
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34986
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author Seltzer, Emily S
Shenoy, Shabari M
Yoon, Bo Hyung
Rozenshteyn, Frederick
Cavaliere, Kimberly
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description The initial evaluation of reported inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) should include an assessment for immunosuppression which can broaden the differential diagnosis to include opportunistic infection as well as other processes. Here we present an exceedingly rare case of a patient with a self-reported history of Crohn’s disease presenting with frequent diarrhea presumed to be a Crohn’s flare, however, after further workup was found to have extensive visceral Kaposi sarcoma (KS).
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spelling pubmed-100199022023-03-17 Identifying Visceral Kaposi Sarcoma (KS): A Responsibility to Avoid Anchoring on the Diagnosis of a Crohn’s Flare Seltzer, Emily S Shenoy, Shabari M Yoon, Bo Hyung Rozenshteyn, Frederick Cavaliere, Kimberly Cureus Gastroenterology The initial evaluation of reported inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) should include an assessment for immunosuppression which can broaden the differential diagnosis to include opportunistic infection as well as other processes. Here we present an exceedingly rare case of a patient with a self-reported history of Crohn’s disease presenting with frequent diarrhea presumed to be a Crohn’s flare, however, after further workup was found to have extensive visceral Kaposi sarcoma (KS). Cureus 2023-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10019902/ /pubmed/36938235 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34986 Text en Copyright © 2023, Seltzer et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Gastroenterology
Seltzer, Emily S
Shenoy, Shabari M
Yoon, Bo Hyung
Rozenshteyn, Frederick
Cavaliere, Kimberly
Identifying Visceral Kaposi Sarcoma (KS): A Responsibility to Avoid Anchoring on the Diagnosis of a Crohn’s Flare
title Identifying Visceral Kaposi Sarcoma (KS): A Responsibility to Avoid Anchoring on the Diagnosis of a Crohn’s Flare
title_full Identifying Visceral Kaposi Sarcoma (KS): A Responsibility to Avoid Anchoring on the Diagnosis of a Crohn’s Flare
title_fullStr Identifying Visceral Kaposi Sarcoma (KS): A Responsibility to Avoid Anchoring on the Diagnosis of a Crohn’s Flare
title_full_unstemmed Identifying Visceral Kaposi Sarcoma (KS): A Responsibility to Avoid Anchoring on the Diagnosis of a Crohn’s Flare
title_short Identifying Visceral Kaposi Sarcoma (KS): A Responsibility to Avoid Anchoring on the Diagnosis of a Crohn’s Flare
title_sort identifying visceral kaposi sarcoma (ks): a responsibility to avoid anchoring on the diagnosis of a crohn’s flare
topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10019902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36938235
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34986
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