Vulval Crohn’s Disease in Childhood

Vulval Crohn’s Disease in Childhood

Vulval involvement in Crohn's disease (CD) is rare, particularly in children. The clinical features include erythema, edema, ulceration, and labial skin tags. The authors present two cases of children with vulval CD. In both cases, marked labial edema was the presenting feature. In one patient the immunomodulator tacrolimus ointment 0.03% was used with success. In the second patient control was...

Pinworm Infestation Mimicking Crohns' Disease

We here report a case of a young man who presented to his general practitioner with diarrhea. Inflammatory bowel disease was suspected and a colonoscopy showed aphthous lesions suggestive of Crohns' disease but biopsies revealed eggs of Enterobius vermicularis. When treated for this parasite, his symptoms were alleviated and a followup colonoscopy revealed a normal colon and distal ileum. Enter...

An uncommon cause of vulval pruritus in childhood: Lichen sclerosus.

Changes of Small Bowel Peristalsis in Patients with Crohns Disease

Purpose: MR enterography (MRE) is one of the mainstays in the evaluation of Crohns disease (CD). A wide variety of studies have attempted to improve the sensitivity and specificity of MRE, all focusing on the evaluation of static images [1]. MRE however allows not only the static display of morphology, but can be combined with ultrafast scanning techniques (cineMRE) for analysis of bowel motili...

Ulcerative colitis and Crohns disease: molecular genetics and clinical implications.

Derek Jewell Professor of Gastroenterology, Gastroenterology Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, OX2 6HE, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1865 224829; Fax: +44 (0) 1865 790792; E-mail: [email protected] The genetics of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an area of enormous topical interest. Crohn’s disease is one of the first polygenic diseases in which a susceptibility gene (NOD2 ) ...