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
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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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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author Ferguson, Deborah
Suppiah, Aravind
Richards, Eleanor
Wilson, Jeremy
Pai, Deepak
Kar, Asit
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Suppiah, Aravind
Richards, Eleanor
Wilson, Jeremy
Pai, Deepak
Kar, Asit
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description 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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spelling pubmed-28237152010-02-18 Missed presentation of Crohn's disease in a patient with a fistulating thigh abscess: a case report Ferguson, Deborah Suppiah, Aravind Richards, Eleanor Wilson, Jeremy Pai, Deepak Kar, Asit Cases J 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-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. BioMed Central 2010-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC2823715/ /pubmed/20205794 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-3-26 Text en Copyright ©2010 Ferguson et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ferguson, Deborah
Suppiah, Aravind
Richards, Eleanor
Wilson, Jeremy
Pai, Deepak
Kar, Asit
Missed presentation of Crohn's disease in a patient with a fistulating thigh abscess: a case report
title Missed presentation of Crohn's disease in a patient with a fistulating thigh abscess: a case report
title_full Missed presentation of Crohn's disease in a patient with a fistulating thigh abscess: a case report
title_fullStr Missed presentation of Crohn's disease in a patient with a fistulating thigh abscess: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Missed presentation of Crohn's disease in a patient with a fistulating thigh abscess: a case report
title_short Missed presentation of Crohn's disease in a patient with a fistulating thigh abscess: a case report
title_sort missed presentation of crohn's disease in a patient with a fistulating thigh abscess: a case report
topic Case Report
url 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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