Terminal ileitis (differential)
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The differential diagnosis for a terminal ileitis is quite extensive, and includes:
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inflammatory bowel disease
- Crohn disease (most common)
- backwash ileitis due to ulcerative colitis
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infectious colitis
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Yersinia spp.
- Yersinia enterocolitica
- Yersinia
pseduotuberculosispseudotuberculosis
- Salmonella spp.
- Clostridium difficile
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typhilitis (
neutropaenicneutropenic enterocolitis) - Mycobacterial spp.
- Actinomycosis
- Anisakiasis
- Cytomegalovirus
- Histoplasma capsulatum
-
Yersinia spp.
- spondyloarthropathies
- small bowel ischaemia
- radiation enteritis
- vasculitides
- small-bowel neoplasms
- adenocarcinoma of the small bowel (or caecum)
- lymphoma: lymphoma of terminal ileum
- carcinoid tumour
- metastatic cancer
- drug-related
- NSAID enteropathy: isolated terminal ileal ulcerations (ITIU)
- other drugs: potassium chloride tablets, parenteral gold therapy, oral contraceptives, ergotamine, digoxin, diuretics, antihypertensives
- infiltrative
- endometriosis
- lymphoid nodular hyperplasia
-<li><em>Yersinia pseduotuberculosis</em></li>- +<li><em>Yersinia pseudotuberculosis</em></li>
-<a href="/articles/typhlitis">typhilitis</a> (<a href="/articles/neutropaenic-enterocolitis">neutropaenic enterocolitis</a>)</li>- +<a href="/articles/typhlitis">typhilitis</a> (<a href="/articles/neutropaenic-enterocolitis">neutropenic enterocolitis</a>)</li>
-<li><a href="/articles/behcet-disease-2">Behçet's disease</a></li>- +<li><a href="/articles/behcet-disease-2">Behçet disease</a></li>
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