A CASE OF CROHN'S DISEASE WITH ESOPHAGEAL LONGITUDINAL APHTHAES

Abstract

Twenty one-year-old man was admitted to our hospital, complaining of anal pain and odynophagia. He was diagnosed with Crohn's disease involving in the small and large intestine and anus as well as the esophagus, in which endoscopy revealed longitudinally arranged aphthaes. Mesalazine powder 250mg/day and rabeprazole 10mg/day were administrated for esophageal lesions, which relieved the symptoms a few days later. Esophago-gastroendoscopy at 1 month after the administration of mesalazine powder and rabeprazole comfirmed that the therapy improved the esophageal aphthaes. We reported a case of Crohn's disease with esophageal longitudinal aphthaes.