Isolated Crohn's disease of the stomach

Mayo Clin Proc. 1989 Jul;64(7):776-9. doi: 10.1016/s0025-6196(12)61750-9.

Abstract

Crohn's disease can involve any portion of the digestive tract, but isolated gastric Crohn's disease is a rare entity. In the few previously reported cases, the inflammatory disorder has involved only a portion of the stomach. Herein we describe a patient with diffuse involvement of the entire stomach and an associated gastrosplenic fistula but no evidence of involvement elsewhere in the gastrointestinal tract. Usually, a patient with isolated Crohn's disease of the stomach will have the clinical symptoms of nausea, vomiting, and epigastric pain and radiographic evidence of a small contracted stomach (or, occasionally, a huge dilated stomach). Because the condition may suggest the presence of a malignant lesion and biopsy specimens often reveal nonspecific inflammation, surgical resection is usually necessary for diagnosis of isolated Crohn's disease of the stomach.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Crohn Disease / complications
  • Crohn Disease / diagnosis*
  • Crohn Disease / pathology
  • Female
  • Fistula / diagnosis
  • Fistula / etiology
  • Fistula / pathology
  • Gastric Fistula / diagnosis
  • Gastric Fistula / etiology
  • Gastric Fistula / pathology
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Splenic Diseases / diagnosis
  • Splenic Diseases / etiology
  • Splenic Diseases / pathology
  • Stomach / pathology
  • Stomach Diseases / complications
  • Stomach Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Stomach Diseases / pathology