Idiopathic sclerosing mesenteritis in paediatrics: Report of a successfully treated case and a review of literature

A 6 year old female with symptoms of small bowel obstruction underwent an exploratory laparotomy which revealed widespread evidence of inflammatory fibrotic adhesions involving the jejunal mesentery. In view of persistent growth failure, chronic anaemia, elevated acute phase reactants and imaging ev...

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Autores principales: Viswanathan, Vijay, Murray, Kevin J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2825191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20205836
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-8-5
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description A 6 year old female with symptoms of small bowel obstruction underwent an exploratory laparotomy which revealed widespread evidence of inflammatory fibrotic adhesions involving the jejunal mesentery. In view of persistent growth failure, chronic anaemia, elevated acute phase reactants and imaging evidence of a diffuse progressive inflammatory process, the child was treated with corticosteroids and methotrexate with complete response. The literature on juvenile idiopathic sclerosing mesenteritis has been reviewed.
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spelling pubmed-28251912010-02-20 Idiopathic sclerosing mesenteritis in paediatrics: Report of a successfully treated case and a review of literature Viswanathan, Vijay Murray, Kevin J Pediatr Rheumatol Online J Case Report A 6 year old female with symptoms of small bowel obstruction underwent an exploratory laparotomy which revealed widespread evidence of inflammatory fibrotic adhesions involving the jejunal mesentery. In view of persistent growth failure, chronic anaemia, elevated acute phase reactants and imaging evidence of a diffuse progressive inflammatory process, the child was treated with corticosteroids and methotrexate with complete response. The literature on juvenile idiopathic sclerosing mesenteritis has been reviewed. BioMed Central 2010-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC2825191/ /pubmed/20205836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-8-5 Text en Copyright ©2010 Viswanathan and Murray; 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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Idiopathic sclerosing mesenteritis in paediatrics: Report of a successfully treated case and a review of literature
title Idiopathic sclerosing mesenteritis in paediatrics: Report of a successfully treated case and a review of literature
title_full Idiopathic sclerosing mesenteritis in paediatrics: Report of a successfully treated case and a review of literature
title_fullStr Idiopathic sclerosing mesenteritis in paediatrics: Report of a successfully treated case and a review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Idiopathic sclerosing mesenteritis in paediatrics: Report of a successfully treated case and a review of literature
title_short Idiopathic sclerosing mesenteritis in paediatrics: Report of a successfully treated case and a review of literature
title_sort idiopathic sclerosing mesenteritis in paediatrics: report of a successfully treated case and a review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2825191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20205836
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-8-5
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