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CASE REPORT
Crohn’s disease presenting as gastric outlet obstruction: a therapeutic challenge?
  1. Faisal Inayat1,
  2. Waqas Ullah2,
  3. Qulsoom Hussain3,
  4. Khurram Shafique4
  1. 1 New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, New York, USA
  2. 2 University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
  3. 3 Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad, Pakistan
  4. 4 Department of Pathology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, New York, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Waqas Ullah, waqasullah.dr{at}gmail.com

Summary

Isolated gastric Crohn’s disease with initial presentation related to gastric outlet obstruction is an unusual clinicopathological entity. We undertake here a literature review of this rare initial presentation of isolated gastric Crohn’s disease and discuss the formidable diagnostic and therapeutic challenges encountered in such patients.

  • Gastroenterology
  • Endoscopy

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2016-218181

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors FI and WU wrote the discussion and did literature review. QH and KS wrote the presentation and summary.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.