Prevalence of eosinophilic colitis and the diagnoses associated with colonic eosinophilia.

DiTommaso, Lauren A; Rosenberg, Chen E; Eby, Michael D; Tasco, Amy; Collins, Margaret H; Lyles, John L; Putnam, Philip E; Mukkada, Vincent A et al. · J Allergy Clin Immunol · 2019

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Abstract

Pediatric eosinophilic colitis (EC) is a rare disease with a prevalence of ~1/63,000 individuals, and at our tertiary care pediatric medical center, only 2% of patients with the ICD-9/10 code for EC likely have the disease.

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