CROHNS-DISEASE OF THE LEG - A NEW CASE AND A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

Specific, cutaneous manifestations of Crohn's disease occurring at a s ite distant from the gastrointestinal tract are termed metastatic. Suc h complications are extremely rare. Extra-genital areas are less frequ ently affected than genital organs with only 22 cases reported in the literature. We report here a new case of Crohn's disease with this cha racteristic skin involvement, affecting the leg, which cleared complet ely after oral corticotherapy over a 6-month period. No local recurren ce had been observed 1 year later. The major clinical polymorphism of metastatic Crohn's disease lesions as well as the therapeutic aspects are discussed.