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Báo cáo y học: "Sweet's syndrome in a patient with Crohn's disease: a case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Sweet's syndrome in a patient with Crohn's disease: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Sweet s syndrome in a patient with Crohn s disease a case report Nadia M Mustafa 1 and Mark Lavizzo12 Address 1Internal Medicine Residency Program College of Medicine University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA and 2Assistant professor College of Medicine University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA Email Nadia M Mustafa - nmustafa@uic.edu Mark Lavizzo - mlavizzo@uiuc.edu Corresponding author fEqual contributors Published 28 June 2008 Received 6 August 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 221 doi 10.1186 1752-1947-2-221 Accepted 28 June 2008 This article is available from http www.jmedicalcasereports.cOm content 2 1 221 2008 Mustafa and Lavizzo licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Background Sweet s syndrome also known as acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis has been associated with malignancy autoimmune disease and collagen vascular disease. The association of Crohn s disease and Sweet s syndrome is rare. We report a case of Sweet s syndrome in a patient with Crohn s disease. Case presentation A 63-year-old man with a history of Crohn s disease presented with one-week duration of abdominal pain diarrhea and hematochezia. He also noticed eruption of painful skin rashes all over his body at the same time. Colonoscopy and esophagogastroduodenoscopy EGD showed inflammation involving different parts of the gastrointestinal tract consistent with Crohn s disease. Punch biopsy of the skin lesion was consistent with Sweet s syndrome which has a rare association with Crohn s disease. Conclusion Crohn s disease should be excluded in patients presenting