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Familial Mediterranean Fever Mimicking Metastatic Crohn's Disease

Published:2024-07 Issue:7 Volume:11 Page:e00839
ISSN:2326-3253
Container-title:ACG Case Reports Journal
language:en
Short-container-title:ACG Case Rep J

Author:

Patel Hiral S.¹^ORCID,Srivastav Jigisha¹,Thapa Rupak²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC

2. Section of Rheumatology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC

Abstract

ABSTRACT Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a hereditary disorder that presents with recurrent fever, rash, and polyserosal inflammation. The nonspecific symptoms of FMF allow it to mimic a large variety of diseases including metastatic Crohn's disease (MCD). MCD is a rare extraintestinal manifestation of Crohn's disease characterized by the presence of cutaneous noncaseating granulomas that are noncontiguous within the gastrointestinal tract. We describe a patient who had a delay in diagnosis of FMF as her clinical presentation mimicked MCD.

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

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