Clinical Implications of Pediatric Colonic Eosinophilia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Pediatric colonic eosinophilia represents a confounding finding with a wide differential. It is often difficult to determine which children may progress to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which have an eosinophilic colitis (EC), and which may have no underlying pathology. There is little guidance for the practitioner on the approach to these patients. To define the clinical presentations of colonic eosinophilia and identify factors which may aid in diagnosis we reviewed patients with colonic eosinophilia and the clinicopathologic factors associated with their diagnoses.

Methods

An 8-year retrospective chart review of children whose histopathology identified colonic eosinophilia (N = 72) compared to controls with normal biopsies (N = 35).

Results

Patients w

SUBMITTER: Mark J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5916023 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature