Tonsillar Crohn's Disease
Leticia Rosevics, Thaisa Kowalski Furlan, Carolina Albino Waltrick, Odery Ramos Júnior · 2024
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Description
Leticia Rosevics and co-authors report Crohn's disease striking a tonsil in a 2024 case paper. Crohn's can inflame any stretch from mouth to anus, though mouth cases are less common. Their patient was a forty-nine-year-old man with eighteen years of gut Crohn's.
His right tonsil had grown large with a fleshy growth, and tonsil pain brought him in. A biopsy showed the granuloma pattern typical of Crohn's, with deep ulceration. Cancer and opportunistic infections had to be ruled out first, the authors stress. His drug was switched to infliximab. Three months later his gut symptoms were gone and the tonsil lesion had healed. The case reminds doctors that Crohn's can surface far from the gut.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Leticia Rosevics, Thaisa Kowalski Furlan, Carolina Albino Waltrick, Odery Ramos Júnior |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |