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Acute jejunoileitis. A distinct entity?
J Levine1, M H Schmidt, M I Burrell
1Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
A 44-year-old man with acute jejunoileitis of unknown etiology developed small bowel obstruction. Intermittent abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea, ascites, and leukocytosis were prominent features. All stool cultures were negative. On steroid treatment, symptoms and radiographic features completely resolved. We suggest, in agreement with an earlier report, that acute jejunoileitis may be regarded as a distinct clinical entity.