title: [Buerger's disease or thromboangiitis obliterans revealed by an enteric ischemia. Case report and literature review].
abstract: Thromboangiitis obliterans or Buerger's disease is a rare arteritis affecting mainly young male smokers. Distal limb symptoms are well-known. Digestive manifestations, especially when inaugural, are less known and sometimes misdiagnosed. We report the case of a 37-year-old man who developed a large mesenteric infarct with diffuse ischemic colitis and ischemia in the hepatic artery field. Histopathological findings were consistent with thromboangiitis obliterans. Unexplained abdominal pain, even if inaugural, in young male smokers, should evoke the possibility of Buerger's disease.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Anatomie Pathologique, Hôpital Avicenne, 125, rue de Stalingrad, 93009 Bobigny Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Camilo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Adem
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Benamouzig
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Royer
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chapel
authors.forename: Antoine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martin
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain; D000328:Adult; D017091:Colitis, Ischemic / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012907:Smoking; D013919:Thromboangiitis Obliterans / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: La maladie de Buerger ou thromboangéite oblitérante révélée par un infarctus mésentérique.