Laryngeal Crohn’s Disease: Case Report and Review of Literature

Introduction: Crohn’s disease (CD) is classically described as a chronic granulomatous inflammatory bowel disease, laryngeal and other otolaryngologic manifestations of CD are uncommon and may be subtle, as laryngeal involvement by CD has been reported in only six cases in the medical literature. Objective: we describe a case of an Egyptian man with extra intestinal CD that involves the supraglottic and subglottic regions, but with skipping of the glottis. Conclusion: This case demonstrates the need to be oriented with extra intestinal CD especially if the lesion was mainly laryngeal, and therefore, a high degree of suspicion is necessary to diagnose the disease, as early recognition is imperative, and we recommend a detailed study on a large number of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and CD on the long term effect of colectomy on development of extra intestinal manifestations, as we suspect that colectomy might have triggered the onset of airway involvement many years later. *Corresponding author: Samia A Fawaz, Otorhinolaryngology, Ain Shams University, Egypt, E-mail: [email protected] Received December 14, 2011; Accepted December 23, 2011; Published December 28, 2011 Citation: Fawaz SA, El-Demerdash A, Salman MI (2012) Laryngeal Crohn’s Disease: Case Report and Review of Literature. J Clinic Case Reports 2:e107. doi:10.4172/2165-7920.1000e107 Copyright: © 2012 Fawaz SA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.