Bowel-associated dermatosis-arthritis syndrome: bowel bypass syndrome without bowel bypass.
The bowel bypass syndrome is a well-recognized complication in patients who have had jejunoileal bypass for morbid obesity. It consists of an influenza-like illness with increased temperature, chills, polyarthralgia, myalgia, and inflammatory papules and pustules that are 2 to 4 mm in diameter and that usually appear on the extremities and the upper part of the trunk. A patient is reported who had an identical bowel-associated dermatosis-arthritis syndrome but who had not undergone a jejunoileal bypass operation. Seven previously reported similar cases are reviewed.
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D000328:Adult; D001168:Arthritis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007581:Jejunoileal Bypass; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011178:Postgastrectomy Syndromes / Q000209:etiology*; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D013577:Syndrome