Missed presentation of Crohn's disease in a patient with a fistulating thigh abscess: a case report.
BACKGROUND
Musculoskeletal presentations of Crohn's disease are rare and they include psoas abscess, thigh abscesses and in extreme cases septic arthropathy.


METHODS
Herein, we present a 53 year old gentleman with bilateral thigh fistulae discovered to be a new diagnoses of extra-intestinal Crohn's disease


CONCLUSIONS
It is important to consider Crohn's disease in patients that present with unusual or persistent fistulae and to consider this essential when there are atypical organisms present.
Ferguson
Deborah
D
Scunthorpe General Hospital, Cliff Gardens Cliff Gardens, Scunthorpe, South Humberside DN15 7BH, UK. deborahferguson@doctors.org.uk.
Suppiah
Aravind
A
Richards
Eleanor
E
Wilson
Jeremy
J
Pai
Deepak
D
Kar
Asit
A