[Crohn's disease in childhood. Comments on one case (author's transl)]

Chronic inflammatory diseases of the bowel are specially frequent in the adult, with peak incidence during adolescence and early adulthood. There are, however, increasing number of reports in the pediatric age group, mainly coming from anglosaxon countries although more recently also from countries of Southern Europe. Authors present a case of Crohn disease occuring in a child, with typical clinical, radiological and pathological features, since they are not aware of any report in the Spanish literature. Comments are made upon pathogenesis, clinical features and pathological findings and specially upon the treatment established in the present case in relation with the indications of other authors.