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eosinophilic colitis

Etiology

- allergic colitis
- parasitic colitis

- drug-induced eosinophilic colitis

- hypereosinophilic syndrome (3432177)
- idiopathic eosinophilic colitis

Associations

- allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (12894856)
- Tolosa-Hunt syndrome (12858845)

Variants

- neonatal eosinophilic colitis (7062205)

Differential diagnosis

- 39% to 57% of eosinophilic granulocytes in Crohn’s disease (12812315)
- 3.3% to 9% of eosinophilic granulocytes in ulcerative colitis (12812315)

Variants

- neonatal eosinophilic colitis

Associations

- perianal disease

Refrerences

- Persic M, Stimac T, Stimac D, Kovac D. Eosinophilic colitis: a rare entity. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2001 Mar;32(3):325-6. PMID: 11345185