Eosinophilic gastroenteritis: diagnostic laparoscopy

We report a case of eosinophilic gastroenteritis. The initial diagnosis was made by laparoscopic inspection of the lesion during exploration of the abdomen. We immediately carried out an extracorporeal resection using a laparoscopic surgical technique. Pathological examination confirmed our diagnosis. Eosinophilic gastroenteritis is an infrequent condition, and this definitive description of a lesion as seen in the magnified field of the laparoscope demonstrates the effectiveness of laparoscopy as a diagnostic tool to diagnose the cause of ill-defined abdominal discomfort with inconclusive laboratory findings that formerly would have needed a more surgically aggressive laparotomy to resolve.