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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Autores principales: Raza, Ahmad, Chan, Vincent, Cheema, Muhammad Arslan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Gastroenterology
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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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-68230682019-11-12 Atypical Clinical Presentation of Crohn’s Disease as Diffuse Abdominal Lymphadenopathy and Venous Thrombosis: A Difficult to Diagnose Case Raza, Ahmad Chan, Vincent Cheema, Muhammad Arslan Cureus Gastroenterology 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. Cureus 2019-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6823068/ /pubmed/31720195 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5805 Text en Copyright © 2019, Raza et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Gastroenterology
Raza, Ahmad
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Atypical Clinical Presentation of Crohn’s Disease as Diffuse Abdominal Lymphadenopathy and Venous Thrombosis: A Difficult to Diagnose Case
title Atypical Clinical Presentation of Crohn’s Disease as Diffuse Abdominal Lymphadenopathy and Venous Thrombosis: A Difficult to Diagnose Case
title_full Atypical Clinical Presentation of Crohn’s Disease as Diffuse Abdominal Lymphadenopathy and Venous Thrombosis: A Difficult to Diagnose Case
title_fullStr Atypical Clinical Presentation of Crohn’s Disease as Diffuse Abdominal Lymphadenopathy and Venous Thrombosis: A Difficult to Diagnose Case
title_full_unstemmed Atypical Clinical Presentation of Crohn’s Disease as Diffuse Abdominal Lymphadenopathy and Venous Thrombosis: A Difficult to Diagnose Case
title_short Atypical Clinical Presentation of Crohn’s Disease as Diffuse Abdominal Lymphadenopathy and Venous Thrombosis: A Difficult to Diagnose Case
title_sort atypical clinical presentation of crohn’s disease as diffuse abdominal lymphadenopathy and venous thrombosis: a difficult to diagnose case
topic Gastroenterology
url 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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