Facial Presentation of Crohn’s Disease: Report of a Case

Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal system affecting millions of people globally. As clinicians, we are faced with this disease commonly in the lower and middle gastrointestinal tract. The presentation of this condition is rare in the maxillofacial and oral regions....

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Autores principales: Talebzadeh, Arjavon T, Talebzadeh, Nojan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Infectious Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10085536/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37051004
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36024
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description Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal system affecting millions of people globally. As clinicians, we are faced with this disease commonly in the lower and middle gastrointestinal tract. The presentation of this condition is rare in the maxillofacial and oral regions. This case report presents a case where the patient presents with an acute severe infection in the head and neck skin region. Familiarity with this case alerts dentists and physicians to look for signs of inflammatory bowel disease as a differential diagnosis in patients with this presentation.
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spelling pubmed-100855362023-04-11 Facial Presentation of Crohn’s Disease: Report of a Case Talebzadeh, Arjavon T Talebzadeh, Nojan Cureus Infectious Disease Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal system affecting millions of people globally. As clinicians, we are faced with this disease commonly in the lower and middle gastrointestinal tract. The presentation of this condition is rare in the maxillofacial and oral regions. This case report presents a case where the patient presents with an acute severe infection in the head and neck skin region. Familiarity with this case alerts dentists and physicians to look for signs of inflammatory bowel disease as a differential diagnosis in patients with this presentation. Cureus 2023-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10085536/ /pubmed/37051004 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36024 Text en Copyright © 2023, Talebzadeh 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.
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