Crohn's disease and gastrocnemius vasculitis: two new cases.
case_report · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 9149206.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
Abstract
We report two cases of gastrocnemius muscle vasculitis revealing Crohn's disease. Gastrocnemius muscle biopsy evidenced a necrotizing vasculitis resembling panarteritis nodosa in one case; a nonnecrotizing vasculitis was found in the other case. Neither of the patients had systemic vasculitic involvement, and the muscle disease resembled calf muscle-located panarteritis nodosa. Our literature review shows five cases of calf-located myalgia occurring during Crohn's disease characterized by heterogenous histopathological findings including vasculitic and myositic lesions. Thus, faced with calf-located myalgia with vasculitis or myositis, a search for Crohn's disease is probably necessary to determine precisely the frequency and the etiopathogenic mechanisms of this association.
Medical subject headings
- Crohn Disease
- Muscle, Skeletal
- Vasculitis