Maladie inflammatoire chronique de l’intestin dans sa forme pseudotumorale régressant sous aminosalicylates

A pseudotumoral form of Crohn's disease: A case report and review of the literature

“…In fact, this pseudotumoral form of Crohn's disease has been already reported in the literature. Its clinical presentation is variable: abdominal mass like our case and the case of Stoica et al, 9 obstruction and pseudo-obstruction as our patient and other three cases reported by Fekih et al, 10 weight loss like our case and the case of Maamouri et al, 8 dysentery syndrome, 10 bloody diarrhea, 11,12 rectal syndrome, 11 rectal bleeding, 10 abdominal pain, vomiting, 14 and acute right iliac fossa. 10 The abdomino-pelvic CT scans performed in most of these patients with a colonic tumor were not contributory to the diagnosis of these pseudotumoral forms as they fail to differentiate them from colonic neoplasia.…”