PENILE CROHNS-DISEASE - A CASE-REPORT

Metastatic Crohn's disease is a rare inflammatory condition characteri sed by cutaneous granulomatous lesions separated from the affected bow el by normal intact skin. Involvement of the genitalia in Crohn's dise ase is rare and consists of ulcerated lesions in almost all of the cas es reported in the literature. We describe a case of penile involvemen t in a 27 year old man with a 5 year history of Crohn's disease. Shoul d genital involvement precede the bowel disease, patients may consult the sexually transmitted disease service for this problem and the derm atovenereologists may be the first to formulate the diagnosis.