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DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1100387
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York
Metastatischer Morbus Crohn: Manifestation im Kopf-Hals-Bereich
Metastatic Crohn's Disease: Manifestation in Head and Neck RegionPublication History
eingereicht: 17. Juli 2008
akzeptiert: 5. September 2008
Publication Date:
08 December 2008 (online)
Zusammenfassung
Der Begriff „metastatischer Morbus Crohn” ist definiert als sterile granulomatöse kutane Läsion bei gleichnamiger Erkrankung ohne direkte Verbindung zum Gastrointestinaltrakt. Wir berichten über eine 33-jährige Patientin mit laborchemischer Infektkonstellation, Diarrhoen, aphthoiden Mundschleimhautläsionen und rezidivierenden granulomatösen Abszessen der Kutis unter Einschluss der Kopf-Hals-Region. Die histologische Analyse von Biopsaten betroffener Haut und Schleimhaut ergab das Vorliegen von Ulzerationen mit chronisch-granulierender, teils floride- phlegmonöser Entzündung mit nicht-verkäsenden Granulomen und mehrkernigen Riesenzellen. Die Zusammenschau der makro- und mikroskopischen Aspekte intestinaler sowie kutaner Läsionen führte zur Diagnose des metastasierenden Morbus Crohn. Die Patientin wurde erfolgreich mit Immunsupressiva behandelt. Ein metastatischer Morbus Crohn ist eine seltene und schwere Verlaufsform der bekannten Autoimmunerkrankung und bedarf einer interdisziplinären Diagnostik und Therapie.
Abstract
Metastatic Crohn's Disease: Manifestation in Head and Neck RegionIn addition to mucosal manifestation in the gastrointestinal tract metastatic Crohn's disease also involves cutaneous sites. We report on a 33 year-old female suffering from diarrhea, aphthous ulceration and recurrent granulomatous abscesses on different cutaneous sites also involving the head neck region. Besides a general infection constellation, histologic examination of affected skin and mucosa revealed ulceration with chronic-granulomatous inflammation with Langerhans giant cells. Taking together the intestinal and cutaneous lesions and their histologic appearance as well as the clinical features lead to metastatic Crohn's disease. The patient recovered under immunosuppressive drugs. Metastastic Crohn's disease is a rare and severe form of the well known autoimmune disease which needs interdisciplinary diagnostic and therapy.
Schlüsselwörter
metastasierender Morbus Crohn - Kutane Manifestation - Metastasen - Aphthen - Granulom - Abszess
Key words
metastatic Crohn's disease - aphthous ulceration - granuloma - abscess
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Korrespondenzadresse
Dr. med. Simone Hindersin
Klinik für Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde
Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf
Direktor: Prof. Dr. J. Schipper
Moorenstr. 5
40225 Düsseldorf
Email: simone.hindersin@uni-duesseldorf.de