CASE REPORT   

Gazzetta Medica Italiana - Archivio per le Scienze Mediche 2019 April;178(4):231-3

DOI: 10.23736/S0393-3660.18.03748-8

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Yersinia mesenteric lymphadenopathy: multimodality imaging

Graziella DI GREZIA ¹ ✉, Paolo ROMANO ¹, Roberto GRASSI ², Lanfranco MUSTO ¹

¹ G. Criscuoli Hospital, Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi, Avellino, Italy; ² University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy

To date, there are few cases of abdominal imaging of Yersinia enterocolitis infection. We describe the case of a 29 y man with fever, diarrhea and abdominal pain during the preceding ten days. The patient underwent abdominal ultrasonography, conventional radiography and abdominal CT that highlighted multiple mesenteric adenopathies that could orient for lymphoproliferative disease, Crohn’s disease or a severe appendicitis. Inflammatory laboratory parameters were elevated. He underwent an abdominal biopsy of a mesenteric node in right iliac region; the pathologist diagnosed Yersinia enterocolitis infection.

KEY WORDS: Yersinia enterocolitica - Lymph nodes - Abdominal pain