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Respiration
; 74(6): 698-702, 2007.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16636526
RESUMO
Extraintestinal involvement, including the chest, is common in the late course of Crohn's disease. We describe 2 female patients in whom the course of the disease was unique in two aspects: (1) each had a pulmonary mass with granulomatous inflammation and necrosis, and (2) these findings had preceded the colonic involvement by 5 years. This sequence supports some of the theories on the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease and on its possible relation with sarcoidosis, another idiopathic granulomatous disease.