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Atypical Clinical Presentation of Crohn’s Disease as Diffuse Abdominal Lymphadenopathy and Venous Thrombosis: A Difficult to Diagnose Case

Crohn’s disease (CD) is an inflammatory bowel disease with clinical manifestations that are more variable than those of ulcerative colitis. It can manifest with a wide range of gastrointestinal as well as extra-intestinal symptoms and at times it becomes difficult to diagnose because of presenting v...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Raza, Ahmad, Chan, Vincent, Cheema, Muhammad Arslan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6823068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31720195
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5805
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Sumario:Crohn’s disease (CD) is an inflammatory bowel disease with clinical manifestations that are more variable than those of ulcerative colitis. It can manifest with a wide range of gastrointestinal as well as extra-intestinal symptoms and at times it becomes difficult to diagnose because of presenting variability. Here we present a case of a young male who presented with diffuse abdominal lymphadenopathy with abdominal vein thrombosis and found to have CD.