Neutropenic enterocolitis (typhlitis) associated with infectious mononucleosis

Pediatr Radiol. 2006 Feb;36(2):155-7. doi: 10.1007/s00247-005-0014-0. Epub 2005 Oct 29.

Abstract

Neutropenic enterocolitis (typhlitis) is an unusual acute complication of neutropenia, most often associated with leukaemia and lymphoma and characterized by segmental caecal and ascending colonic ulceration that may progress to necrosis, perforation, and septicaemia. We present a unique case of an 8-year-old girl with recently diagnosed infectious mononucleosis having findings consistent with typhlitis on abdominal CT.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cecum / diagnostic imaging
  • Cecum / pathology*
  • Child
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infectious Mononucleosis / complications*
  • Infectious Mononucleosis / diagnosis*
  • Infectious Mononucleosis / therapy
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*
  • Typhlitis / complications*
  • Typhlitis / diagnosis*