Signs

SIGNS

  • Weight loss may occur despite a reasonable appetite—principal sign
  • Small bowel diarrhea (e.g., no mucus or blood in the feces, no tenesmus)—common
  • Vomiting and borborygmus—occasional/variable
  • May wax and wane or be consistent
  • May be evidence of diarrhea
  • Intestinal thickening is unexpected unless other infiltrative intestinal disease is also present.
  • Signs typical of infection (i.e., fever, depression) are unexpected.
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