Digestive Malacoplakia in Children: Case Report

Malacoplakia is a form of chronic granulomatous inflammatory reaction that rarely affects the pediatric age group. The gastrointestinal system is the second most common site for the occurrence of malacoplakia. We report the case of a 9-year-old girl who was hospitalized for abdominal pain, chronic d...

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Autores principales: Bouguila, J., Brahim, K., Mokni, M., Skandrani, K., Harbi, A., Essoussi, A. S., Boughammoura, L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Scholarly Research Network 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168563/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21991519
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/597350
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author Bouguila, J.
Brahim, K.
Mokni, M.
Skandrani, K.
Harbi, A.
Essoussi, A. S.
Boughammoura, L.
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description Malacoplakia is a form of chronic granulomatous inflammatory reaction that rarely affects the pediatric age group. The gastrointestinal system is the second most common site for the occurrence of malacoplakia. We report the case of a 9-year-old girl who was hospitalized for abdominal pain, chronic diarrhea, and rectal hemorrhage. The endoscopic examinations and histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of intestinal malacoplakia. We successfully treated her with oral levofloxacin. This disease does not have any specific clinical or biological signs, and the diagnosis is exclusively based on histology.
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spelling pubmed-31685632011-10-11 Digestive Malacoplakia in Children: Case Report Bouguila, J. Brahim, K. Mokni, M. Skandrani, K. Harbi, A. Essoussi, A. S. Boughammoura, L. ISRN Gastroenterol Case Report Malacoplakia is a form of chronic granulomatous inflammatory reaction that rarely affects the pediatric age group. The gastrointestinal system is the second most common site for the occurrence of malacoplakia. We report the case of a 9-year-old girl who was hospitalized for abdominal pain, chronic diarrhea, and rectal hemorrhage. The endoscopic examinations and histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of intestinal malacoplakia. We successfully treated her with oral levofloxacin. This disease does not have any specific clinical or biological signs, and the diagnosis is exclusively based on histology. International Scholarly Research Network 2011 2010-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3168563/ /pubmed/21991519 http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/597350 Text en Copyright © 2011 J. Bouguila et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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