Lip swelling in a young patient ultimately diagnosed with Crohn's disease

Lip swelling in a young patient ultimately diagnosed with Crohn's disease

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We describe a female child in the first decade patient admitted to a children's hospital for lip swelling and constipation who was ultimately diagnosed with Crohn's disease. Her lip swelling resolved after the initial immunosuppression for her Crohn's disease. In this article, we discuss the pretest probability of cutaneous findings associated with...

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... the mother's report, the patient had waxing and waning lip swelling every 2 weeks. The swelling was associated with a rash around the lips [ Figure 1]. Her lips had never returned to baseline since her symptoms started. ...