An unusual presentation of inflammatory bowel disease.
Erythema nodosum (EN) is an infrequent but well-described extraintestinal manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We report a case of a previously healthy 8-year-old girl who presented to her primary care manager with a chief complaint of EN and was later found to have Crohn's disease. Th...
| Publicado en: | Military Medicine Vol. 177; no. 2; pp. 240 - 243 |
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| Formato: | case study Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Feb2012
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