Missed presentation of Crohn's disease in a patient with a fistulating thigh abscess: a case report

BACKGROUND: Musculoskeletal presentations of Crohn's disease are rare and they include psoas abscess, thigh abscesses and in extreme cases septic arthropathy. CASE PRESENTATION: Herein, we present a 53 year old gentleman with bilateral thigh fistulae discovered to be a new diagnoses of extra-in...

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Autores principales: Ferguson, Deborah, Suppiah, Aravind, Richards, Eleanor, Wilson, Jeremy, Pai, Deepak, Kar, Asit
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2823715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20205794
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-3-26
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Musculoskeletal presentations of Crohn's disease are rare and they include psoas abscess, thigh abscesses and in extreme cases septic arthropathy. CASE PRESENTATION: Herein, we present a 53 year old gentleman with bilateral thigh fistulae discovered to be a new diagnoses of extra-intestinal Crohn's disease CONCLUSION: It is important to consider Crohn's disease in patients that present with unusual or persistent fistulae and to consider this essential when there are atypical organisms present.

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