A Case of Granulomatous Pancreatitis Caused by Syphilis / 대한내과학회지
Korean Journal of Medicine
; : 696-701, 1997.
Artigo
em Coreano
| WPRIM (Pacífico Ocidental)
| ID: wpr-111785
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WPRO
ABSTRACT
Granulomatous pancreatitis is a granulomatous inflammatory disease of the pancreas and can he described only in infectious granulomas and pancreatic involvement by systemic granulomatosis. Sarcoidosis, isolated pancreatic involvement without systemic granulomatosis or a manifestation of systemic sarcoidosis, is more common cause of granulo-mataus pancreatitis than infectious granuloma. There has been some reports show a characteristic histological finding of the pancreatic involvement of sarcoidasis. Noncaseating granuloma is thought to be the characteristic finding of pancreatic sarcoidosis. But granulomatous pancreatitis caused by syphilis in a syrnptomatic patient is a very rare disease and, till now, to our knowledge, only a case was reported in 1987, Germany. We experienced a 55-year-old female patient with granulomatous pancreatitis caused by tertiary syphilis who presented as a recent onset jaundice, diarrhea, fatigue and vague epigastric discomfort. Radical pancreaticoduo-denectomy was performed, which showed noncaseating granulomatous pancratitis with vasculitis. To our knowledge, this is the first case of granulomatous pancreatitis caused by syphilis in Korea. We hereby report a case of granulomatous pancreatitis caused by syphilis with a brief review of literature.
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Problema de saúde:
Diarreia
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Doenças Negligenciadas
Base de dados:
WPRIM (Pacífico Ocidental)
Assunto principal:
Pâncreas
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Pancreatite
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Sarcoidose
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Vasculite
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Sífilis
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Doenças Raras
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Diarreia
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Fadiga
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Alemanha
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Granuloma
Limite:
Feminino
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Humanos
País/Região como assunto:
Ásia
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Europa
Idioma:
Coreano
Revista:
Korean Journal of Medicine
Ano de publicação:
1997
Tipo de documento:
Artigo