Review Article

Metastatic Crohn’s Disease: An Approach to an Uncommon but Important Cutaneous Disorder

Table 2

Differential diagnosis of metastatic Crohn’s disease [2, 10, 12, 1820, 31, 39].

Granulomatous disordersNongranulomatous disorders

(i) Cutaneous sarcoidosis
(ii) Tuberculosis
(iii) Syphilis
(iv) Mycobacterial infections
(v) Actinomycosis
(vi) Deep fungal infections
(vii) Lymphogranuloma venereum
(viii) Granuloma inguinale
(i) Hidradenitis suppurativa
(ii) Pyoderma gangrenosum
(iii) Impetigo
(iv) Erythema nodosum
(v) Factitial dermatitis from factitial injection of foreign substances
(vi) Schistosomiasis
(vii) Chronic lymphedema resulting from obstruction
(viii) Erysipelas
(ix) Chronic cellulitis
(x) Foreign body reaction