Metastatic Crohn's disease presenting as chronic perivulvar and perirectal ulcerations in an adolescent patient

Pediatrics

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 500-503

  Schrodt, Barbara J ^a   Callen, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CROHN DISEASE; DERMATITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENITAL ULCER; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ULCER; SARCOIDOSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLECTOMY; CROHN DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; RECTUM; SKIN; SKIN ULCER; VULVA;

EID: 0032989609     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.103.2.500     Document Type: Article

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