Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis as a Rare Cause of Recurrent Epigastric Pain

Eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EGE) is a rare inflammatory disorder of gastrointestinal tract characterized by eosinophilic infiltration of the bowel wall. It can mimic many gastrointestinal disorders due to its wide spectrum of presentations. Diagnose is mostly based on excluding other disorders and...

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Autores principales: Safari, Mohammad Taghi, Shahrokh, Shabnam, Miri, Mohammad Bagher, Ehsani Ardakani, Mohammad Javad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4893762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27274524
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author Safari, Mohammad Taghi
Shahrokh, Shabnam
Miri, Mohammad Bagher
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description Eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EGE) is a rare inflammatory disorder of gastrointestinal tract characterized by eosinophilic infiltration of the bowel wall. It can mimic many gastrointestinal disorders due to its wide spectrum of presentations. Diagnose is mostly based on excluding other disorders and a high suspicion. Here we report a case of 26 year old man with a history of sever epigastric pain followed by nausea, vomiting since a few days before admission with final diagnosis of EGE.
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spelling pubmed-48937622016-06-07 Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis as a Rare Cause of Recurrent Epigastric Pain Safari, Mohammad Taghi Shahrokh, Shabnam Miri, Mohammad Bagher Ehsani Ardakani, Mohammad Javad Emerg (Tehran) Case Report Eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EGE) is a rare inflammatory disorder of gastrointestinal tract characterized by eosinophilic infiltration of the bowel wall. It can mimic many gastrointestinal disorders due to its wide spectrum of presentations. Diagnose is mostly based on excluding other disorders and a high suspicion. Here we report a case of 26 year old man with a history of sever epigastric pain followed by nausea, vomiting since a few days before admission with final diagnosis of EGE. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4893762/ /pubmed/27274524 Text en This open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0)., (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/).
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Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis as a Rare Cause of Recurrent Epigastric Pain
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title_fullStr Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis as a Rare Cause of Recurrent Epigastric Pain
title_full_unstemmed Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis as a Rare Cause of Recurrent Epigastric Pain
title_short Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis as a Rare Cause of Recurrent Epigastric Pain
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4893762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27274524
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