Eames, Tatjana and Landthaler, Michael and Karrer, Sigrid (2009) Crohn's disease: an important differential diagnosis of granulomatous skin diseases. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY, 19 (4). pp. 360-364. ISSN 1167-1122, 1952-4013
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Metastatic Crohn's disease is a very rare skin manifestation of Crohn's disease. Its time of occurrence and severity do not necessarily correlate with the intestinal disease. The main characteristic is that the granulomatous skin changes occur at sites distant from the bowel. We report the case of a 65-year-old woman with metastatic Crohn's disease on her right lower leg without clinical intestinal signs at the time of diagnosis. The inflammatory pustulating skin lesions resolved after systemic and topical treatment with corticosteroids. After reducing immunosuppressive therapy, fistulating lesions reappeared on the lower legs and at the mons pubis. Coloscopy now, more than five years after the onset of the first skin lesions, showed an intestinal Crohn's disease. Metastatic Crohn's disease and its differential diagnoses with granulomatous reaction pattern are discussed in this manuscript.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | FACE; extra-intestinal manifestations; metastatic Crohn's disease; granulomatous skin changes; sarcoidal granulomas; tuberculoid granulomas; necrobiotic granulomas |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Dermatologie und Venerologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Sep 2020 04:41 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2020 04:41 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/28738 |
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