Korean J Helicobacter Up Gastrointest Res.
2015 Dec;15(4):264-269. 10.7704/kjhugr.2015.15.4.264.
A Case of Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis with Rapid Deterioration Mimicking Borrmann Type 4 Advanced Gastric Cancer
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- 1Department of Internal Medicine, Sungae Hospital, Seoul, Korea. kshwan0317@naver.com
- 2Department of Internal Medicine, Gwangmyeong Sungae Hospital, Gwangmyeong, Korea.
- KMID: 2149709
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.7704/kjhugr.2015.15.4.264
Abstract
- Eosinophilic gastroenteritis is an uncommon disease of unknown etiology that is characterized by massive tissue infiltration of eosinophils in the tissue layers of various areas of the gastrointestinal tract. An accurate diagnosis is difficult as clinical presentations, symptoms, endoscopic and radiologic findings are nonspecific. A 51-year-old man visited our hospital presenting with abdominal pain. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed diffuse hyperemic mucosal lesions at the stomach, duodenum. Symptoms and endoscopic findings deteriorated rapidly after three days. Small amounts of eosinophilic infiltration without malignant cells was confirmed from biopsy. However, we could not exclude malignancy and performed a subtotal gastrectomy. Stomach specimen showed eosinophilic infiltrations, and the patient was finally diagnosed as eosinophilic gastroenteritis. We report a case of atypical eosinophilic gastritis with rapid deterioration mimicking Borrmann type 4 advanced gastric cancer.
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