title: Eosinophilic gastroenteritis: diagnostic laparoscopy.
abstract: We report a case of eosinophilic gastroenteritis. The initial diagnosis was made by laparoscopic inspection of the lesion during exploration of the abdomen. We immediately carried out an extracorporeal resection using a laparoscopic surgical technique. Pathological examination confirmed our diagnosis. Eosinophilic gastroenteritis is an infrequent condition, and this definitive description of a lesion as seen in the magnified field of the laparoscope demonstrates the effectiveness of laparoscopy as a diagnostic tool to diagnose the cause of ill-defined abdominal discomfort with inconclusive laboratory findings that formerly would have needed a more surgically aggressive laparotomy to resolve.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Clinico Universitario, Málaga, Spain.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vara-Thorbeck
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Toscano-Mendez
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Osorio
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D000328:Adult; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007583:Jejunum / Q000473:pathology; D010535:Laparoscopy