Crohn's Disease Presenting as a Neutrophilic Dermatosis in a 5‐Month‐Old Boy | Zendy

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Crohn's Disease Presenting as a Neutrophilic Dermatosis in a 5‐Month‐Old Boy

Author(s) -

Sutton Angela M.,

Lawrence Hillary S.,

Canty Kristi M.

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

pediatric dermatology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.542

H-Index - 73

eISSN - 1525-1470

pISSN - 0736-8046

DOI - 10.1111/pde.12156

Subject(s) - medicine , failure to thrive , esophagogastroduodenoscopy , rash , dermatology , sigmoidoscopy , disease , colitis , inflammatory bowel disease , histology , surgery , colonoscopy , endoscopy , cancer , colorectal cancer

A 5‐month‐old boy with a previous history of failure to thrive and poor feeding was admitted to the hospital with failure to thrive, oral ulcers, and a generalized vesiculopustular rash that demonstrated a subcorneal pustule and neutrophilic infiltrate on histology. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy biopsies demonstrated chronic active colitis with granulomas, consistent with the diagnosis of C rohn's disease. Our case represents, to our knowledge, the youngest person reported with this condition in association with C rohn's disease.

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