Socioeconomic deprivation does not influence the severity of Crohn's disease: Results of a prospective multicenter study.

Background: Socioeconomic deprivation is associated with poor health. The aims of this study were to evaluate the influence of deprivation in the characteristics and comparisons of deprived and nondeprived Crohn's disease (CD) patients.

Methods: CD patients were prospectively recruited from September 2006 to June 2007 in 6 hospitals in the Paris area.

[A case of VIP and somatostatin-secreting phaeochromocytoma (author's transl)].

A man with watery diarrhoea was found to have adrenal tumour. Pre-operative examinations located the tumour in the right adrenal gland and revealed that it secreted an excess of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP). All symptoms disappeared after excision of the phaeochromocytoma; they have not recurred after a 3 years' follow-up period.