Abstract
Capsule endoscopy is a new technology developed to investigate diseases of the small intestine. It has been shown to be superior to current modalities such as small-bowel radiography and enteroscopy. We describe a patient with long-standing celiac disease who presented with abdominal pain, diarrhea, and weight loss, after many years on a gluten-free diet. The symptom complex and results from small-bowel radiography and computerized tomography raised concern about progression to lymphoma, and ultimately a laparoscopy and small-bowel resection were done for diagnosis. A capsule endoscopy was performed to assess the extent of the patient’s enteropathy-type intestinal T-cell lymphoma after three cycles of chemotherapy. We report the first use of capsule endoscopy in the setting of celiac disease associated enteropathy-type intestinal T-cell lymphoma. These endoscopic findings are correlated with those from gross and microscopic pathology and barium small-bowel radiography.
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A. M. Joyce, M. D.
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