Crohn's Disease with Intraabdominal Abscess as the Initial Diagnosis.
- Author:
Min Su SONG
1
;
Jung Il YI
;
Kwang Gook KIM
;
Seok Ho DONG
;
Hyo Jong KIM
;
Byung Ho KIM
;
Young Woon JANG
;
Rin CHANG
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Crohn's disease;
Intraabdominal abscess
- MeSH:
Abscess*;
Crohn Disease*;
Diagnosis*;
Drainage;
Humans;
Laparotomy
- From:Korean Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
1997;17(3):430-434
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Intraabdominal abscesses and their sequalae have long been observed in patients with Crohn's disease. Patients with Crohn's disease account for little more than 0.5% of all patients coming to laparotomy for intraabdominal abscess. However, an intraabdceninal abscess will develop as a complication of Crohn's disease in 12 to 25% of patients. For enteroparietal abscess, incision and drainage with later definitive resection is the optimal therapy, However, primary en bloc resection is performed with excellent results recently. We experienced a case of Crohn's disease whose initial problem was intraabdorninal abscess. After surgery, we confirmed Crohn's disease.
