D. Isaacs, Y M. Wright, D. G. Shaw, F. Raafat, J. A. Walker‐Smith

Chronic Granulomatous Disease Mimicking Crohn'S Disease

  • Gastroenterology
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Save to CiteDrive Show PDF

A 34‐month‐old boy with intermittent diarrhoea and abdominal distension from 2 months of age, a chronic microabscess of the cheek, gastric antral narrowing, and perianal abscesses containing granulomata was found at colonoscopy to have extensive, noncaseating, submucosal ileal and colonic granulomata. He was initially thought to have Crohn'S disease, but then developed a cervical abscess, and a diagnosis of chronic granulomatous disease was established. This is an important, although rare, differential diagnosis of chronic inflammatory bowel disease in childhood

Need a simple solution for managing your BibTeX entries? Explore CiteDrive!

  • Web-based, modern reference management
  • Collaborate and share with fellow researchers
  • Integration with Overleaf
  • Comprehensive BibTeX/BibLaTeX support
  • Save articles and websites directly from your browser
  • Search for new articles from a database of tens of millions of references
Try out CiteDrive

More from our Archive