title: [Sarcoidosis in children with digestive manifestations].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Gastric involvement is the least rare among digestive localizations of sarcoidosis, as well in adults as in children. When it is to be seen at the beginning of the disease, it may cause difficulties in the diagnostic, especially with Crohn's disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  Gastric ulcers were detected in a 12 year-old girl, of African origin, who complained about epigastric pain. Eighteen months later, diarrhea, poor growing, uveitis and inflammatory biological signs led to a probable diagnostic of Crohn's disease. Endoscopy seemed to confirm this diagnostic with granulomatous lesions on gastric biopsies. The absence of radiological anomalies of the digestive tract and the poor efficiency of the medical treatment led to question this diagnosis and to assert that of sarcoidosis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This case allows to emphasize the rare involvement of the digestive tract in sarcoidosis and the aspects common both to Crohn's disease and sarcoidosis.
authors.affiliation: Service de gastroentérologie et nutrition pédiatriques, hôpital d'Enfants-Armand-Trousseau, Paris, France.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Parlier
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Josset
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Charritat
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tounian
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Girardet
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Boccon-Gibod
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Fontaine
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D004066:Digestive System Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D013270:Stomach / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Sarcoïdose de l'enfant à révélation digestive.