title: Rare case of ileal perforation.
abstract: Ileitis, or inflammation of the ileum, is often caused by Crohn's disease. However, ileitis may be caused by a wide variety of other diseases. These include infectious diseases, spondyloarthropathies, vasculitides, ischemia, neoplasms, medication-induced, eosinophilic enteritis, and others. Eosinophilic enteritis can present as abdominal pain, protein loosing enteropathy, ulcers, intestinal obstruction, intussusception and perforation.Bowel perforation is an uncommon presentation of eosinophilic enteritis. We report a rare case of ileal perforation due to eosinophilic enteritis in a 57 years old female.
authors.affiliation: Senior Resident, Department of General Surgery, Father Muller Medical College , Mangalore, Karnataka - 575002, India .
authors.forename: Vinod
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kumar B
authors.forename: John Joseph S
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Martis
authors.forename: Sheldon G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Mathias
authors.forename: Priyatham
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kamath
authors.forename: Vivek
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Shetty
keywords: Eosinophilic ileitis; Ileal perforation; Laparotomy