Systemic mastocytosis mimicking inflammatory bowel disease: A case report and discussion of gastrointestinal pathology in systemic mastocytosis

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1478-1482

  Bedeir, Ahmed ^a   Jukic, Drazen M ^a   Wang, Linan ^a   Mullady, Daniel K ^a   Regueiro, Miguel ^a   Krasinskas, Alyssa M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Crohn disease; Gastrointestinal tract; Inflammatory bowel disease; Systemic mastocytosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; SKIN BIOPSY; SYSTEMIC MASTOCYTOSIS;

COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALABSORPTION SYNDROMES; MALE; MAST CELLS; MASTOCYTOSIS, SYSTEMIC; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS;

EID: 33750458356     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pas.0000213310.51553.d7     Document Type: Article

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