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Crohn's Disease Accompanied with Small Intestinal Extramedullary Plasmacytoma

Authors :
Soichiro Miura
Shin Nishii
Kenichi Inaba
Shigeaki Nagao
Kengo Tomita
Hirotaka Furuhashi
Takeshi Takajo
Ryota Hokari
Akinori Wada
Kazuhiko Shirakabe
Hideki Ueno
Suguru Ito
Kengo Takeuchi
Kana Ayaki
Kazuki Horiuchi
Yoshinori Hanawa
Chikako Watanabe
Hideyuki Shimazaki
Nao Sugihara
Masaaki Higashiyama
Shunsuke Komoto
Akinori Mizoguchi
Source :
Internal Medicine
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, 2019.

Abstract

We herein present the case of an immunocompetent 63-year-old man who had previously undergone resection of Crohn's disease (CD)-related small intestinal obstruction more than 30 years ago. He had not been receiving any medication for many years, but had recently started to suffer from ileus. A stenosed site of ileo-cecal anastomosis was identified and therefore was surgically resected, which was diagnosed as CD with small intestinal extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP). The subsequent progression of CD was successfully controlled by anti-TNFα agents without any recurrence of EMP for over 3 years, implying the clinical benefit and safety of the biological therapy. This was the first known case of a patient who received anti-TNFα agents after a resection of small intestinal EMP accompanied with CD.

Details

ISSN :
13497235 and 09182918
Volume :
58
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Internal Medicine
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....5693512d637927a2d043677a2c57d329
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.1687-18