Nasal septal perforation in an adolescent girl with Crohn's disease: a rare extraintestinal manifestation.
Crohn's Disease (CD) is a chronic granulomatous inflammatory bowel disease which may also involve the extraintestinal organs such as joints, liver, skin and perianal tissue. Involvement of the aerodigestive tract is quite rare in CD. We report a 16-year-old girl with CD and nasal perforation as an extraintestinal manifestation of the disease.
Sari
Sinan
S
Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey. drsinansari@yahoo.com
Dalgic
Buket
B
Yilmaz
Metin
M
Poyraz
Aylar
A
D000293:Adolescent; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009300:Nasal Septum / Q000473:pathology*; D009668:Nose Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous / Q000209:etiology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index