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Crohn esophagitis

Tuesday 19 May 2009

Synopsis

 dysphagia and odynophagia
 multiple ulcerations
 inflammation
 stricture
 transmural inflammation
 deep ulcerations
 non-necrotizing epithelioid cell granuloma

References

 Isolated oesophageal involvement of Crohn’s disease. Naranjo-Rodríguez A, Solórzano-Peck G, López-Rubio F, Calañas-Continente A, Gálvez-Calderón C, González-Galilea A, Hervás-Molina A. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2003 Oct;15(10):1123-6. PMID: 14501622