genital involvement in pre-pubertal pediatric population: a rare aspect of crohn’s disease

Genital Involvement In Pre-Pubertal Pediatric Population: A Rare Aspect of Crohn’s Disease

Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), characterized by chronic intestinal inflammation that causes the loss of immune tolerance leading to bizarre inflammatory signals and disruption of mucosal barriers. Environmental triggers and interaction of genetic determinants also play an indispensible role. In this case report, we present a pre-pubertal girl with intermittent and refra...

Effect of infliximab top-down therapy on weight gain in pediatric Crohns disease.

This retrospective-medical-record review was conducted to evaluate effect of infliximab therapy, particularly with a top-down strategy, on the nutritional parameters of children with Crohns disease (CD). 42 patients who were diagnosed with Crohns disease at the Pediatric Gastroenterology center of a tertiary care teaching hospital and achieved remission at two months and one year after beginnin...

Poultry disease aspect in Iran

A Rare Tonsillar Disease

A 16 year old women with Tangier disease in palatine tonsils is reported. She has recurrent sore throat. In physical examination the palatine tonsils are hypertrophied and has very yellowish points. The facial skin is yellowish  the skin of another areas of body is normal. After tonsillectomy the pathologist report Tangier disease in palatine tonsils.

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...

High frequency of genital involvement in lichen planus: a cross sectional study

Background: Lichen planus is a chronic inflammatory disease ofunknown etiology that may involve mucocutaneous tissues. Themain aim of our study was to evaluate the frequency of oral andgenital lichen planus in men and women affected by skin lesions.Method: A total of 132 patients with clinical and histopathologicaldiagnosis of lichen planus were evaluated for oral and genitalinvolvement. All da...