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Metastatic cutaneous Crohn's disease in a child Volume 25, issue 1, January-February 2015

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1 Department of Dermatology, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea
2 Department of Dermatology, Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, 150, Sungan-ro, Gangdong-gu, Seoul 134-701, Korea

Metastatic cutaneous Crohn's disease (MCD) is defined as histologically characteristic granulomas of Crohn's disease occurring distant to and separate from the gastrointestinal tract [1]. MCD is rare, especially in children, and the genitalia are the most common site of MCD [2]. We report an unusual case of a 13-year-old boy with a 6-month history of skin lesions on his chest, which were finally diagnosed as MCD. He had experienced intermittent abdominal pain, chronic constipation and recurrent perianal [...]