All issues > Volume 34(7); 1991

Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1991;34(7):1009-1014. Published online July 31, 1991.

A case of Crohn disease.

Ahn Hong Choi¹, Hyung Sim Chang¹, Young Ho Lee¹, Woo Taek Kim¹, Woo Won Shin²

¹Department of Pediatrics, Dong-A University, College of Medicine, Pusan, Korea
²Department of Internal Medicine, Dong-A University, College of Medicine, Pusan, Korea

Received: January 9, 1991;  Accepted: March 21, 1991.

Abstract

We experienced a case with chief complaints of abdominal pain and diarrhea in a 12-year-old boy, who was diagnosed as Crohn disease with a result of radiologic, endoscopic, pathologic findings, and therapeutic diagnosis with antituberculous medications. Crohn disease is quite rare in Korea to our knowledge along with collaborative survey in litera- tures, and it is very important that therapeutic diagnosis with antituberculous medications should be preceded to confirm Crohn disease, since tuberculous enteritis is one of the most prevalent disease around ileocecal area.

Keywords :Crohn Disease