thickened duodenal folds

• inflammatory
  • peptic ulcer (most common cause)
  • Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
  • pancreatitis
  • cholecystitis
  • Crohn disease
  • infection (TB, parasites, cryptosporidia in AIDS)
• neoplastic
  • lymphoma
• infiltrative
  • Whipple disease
  • amyloidosis
  • eosinophilic enteritis
• vascular
  • intramural hematoma
  • ischemia
• edema
  • hypoproteinemia
  • portal hypertension
  • congestive heart failure

© 2002, C.E. Kahn, Jr.
2002-04-18