In:
Digestive Endoscopy, Wiley, Vol. 11, No. 3 ( 1999-07), p. 255-258
Abstract:
A 19–year‐old woman visited our hospital complaining of fever and epigastral‐gia. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed minute discrete erosions surrounded by elevated mucosa about one millimeter in diameter in the esophagus and aphthoid erosions in the stomach. Biopsy samples obtained from the esophagus showed non‐caseating epitheloid granulomas, suggesting Crohn's disease. Colonoscopy showed a small erosion in the cecum adjacent to the vermiform appendix and biopsy showed non‐caseating epitheloid granulomas and Crohn's disease was diagnosed. In hospital, she was treated with elemental diet and 5–aminosalicyclic acid. Clinical symptoms disappeared rapidly and laboratory data became normal. We thus report a rare case of early‐stage Crohn's disease initially indicated by biopsy of minute esophageal erosions. (Dig Endosc 1999; 11: 255–258)
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0915-5635
,
1443-1661
DOI:
10.1111/den.1999.11.issue-3
DOI:
10.1111/j.1443-1661.1999.tb00013.x
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wiley
Publication Date:
1999
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2020071-7
