METASTATIC CROHN'S DISEASE OF EXTERNAL GENITALIA

Metastatic Crohn's disease is an uncommon extraintestinal manifestation of Crohn's disease. Its hallmark features include the presence of cutaneous noncaseating granulomas that are noncontiguous with the gastrointestinal tract or fistula. We report a rare case of metastatic Crohn's di...

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Autores principales: Panackel, Charles, John, Joseph, Krishnadas, Devadas, Vinayakumar, Kattoor R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19882017
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.43207
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author Panackel, Charles
John, Joseph
Krishnadas, Devadas
Vinayakumar, Kattoor R
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John, Joseph
Krishnadas, Devadas
Vinayakumar, Kattoor R
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description Metastatic Crohn's disease is an uncommon extraintestinal manifestation of Crohn's disease. Its hallmark features include the presence of cutaneous noncaseating granulomas that are noncontiguous with the gastrointestinal tract or fistula. We report a rare case of metastatic Crohn's disease involving the external genitalia in a 14-year-old girl. Diagnosis was based on skin biopsy. Patient had complete recovery on treatment with oral and topical steroids along with azathioprine.
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spelling pubmed-27637452009-10-29 METASTATIC CROHN'S DISEASE OF EXTERNAL GENITALIA Panackel, Charles John, Joseph Krishnadas, Devadas Vinayakumar, Kattoor R Indian J Dermatol Case Report Metastatic Crohn's disease is an uncommon extraintestinal manifestation of Crohn's disease. Its hallmark features include the presence of cutaneous noncaseating granulomas that are noncontiguous with the gastrointestinal tract or fistula. We report a rare case of metastatic Crohn's disease involving the external genitalia in a 14-year-old girl. Diagnosis was based on skin biopsy. Patient had complete recovery on treatment with oral and topical steroids along with azathioprine. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2763745/ /pubmed/19882017 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.43207 Text en © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 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 work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Panackel, Charles
John, Joseph
Krishnadas, Devadas
Vinayakumar, Kattoor R
METASTATIC CROHN'S DISEASE OF EXTERNAL GENITALIA
title METASTATIC CROHN'S DISEASE OF EXTERNAL GENITALIA
title_full METASTATIC CROHN'S DISEASE OF EXTERNAL GENITALIA
title_fullStr METASTATIC CROHN'S DISEASE OF EXTERNAL GENITALIA
title_full_unstemmed METASTATIC CROHN'S DISEASE OF EXTERNAL GENITALIA
title_short METASTATIC CROHN'S DISEASE OF EXTERNAL GENITALIA
title_sort metastatic crohn's disease of external genitalia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19882017
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.43207
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