Korean Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 1997;17(1): 55-58.
증례 : 식도 위장관 ; 만성복통을 주증상으로 한 면역기능이 정상인 소아에서 발생한 식도 캔디다증 1예 ( Case Reports : Esophagus , Stomach & Intestine ; A Case of Esophageal Candidiasis Presenting Recurrent Abdominal Pain in an Immunocompetent Child )
김용주, 장세진 (Yong Joo Kim and Se Jin Jang)
Abstract
Candida albicans is the most common cause of infectious esophagitis and usually is an opportunistic infection in immunocompromised patients. Dysphagia and odynophagia are the usual presenting complaints and, importantly, oral lesions are absent in 50 percent of patients. The role of gastrointestinal endoscopy in diagnosing fungal infections of the esophagus is primary. It is the most definitive and often the only method of detecting esophageal candidiasis. Accurate endoscopic diagnosis by biopsy or brushing leads to the initiation nf effective therapy. We have experienced a case of esophageal candidiasis in an 11-year-old girl who was immunologically normal and whose main symptoms were epigastric abdominal pain and nausea for 4 months. The endoscopic and pathologic findings of esophageal candidiasis were presented. (Korean J Gastrointest Endosc 17: 55-58, 1997)
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