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Record W4409599865 · doi:10.1177/2050313x251320194

Asymptomatic Crohn’s disease presenting as perianal masses in a child: A case report and literature review

2025· article· en· W4409599865 on OpenAlexaff
Samia Rahman, Loretta Fiorillo

Bibliographic record

VenueSAGE Open Medical Case Reports · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicAutoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineAsymptomaticDermatologyCrohn's diseaseDiseasePhysical examinationOutpatient clinicAnal sphincterSurgeryPathologyInternal medicine

Abstract

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A 7-year-old male presented to our outpatient pediatric dermatology clinic for enlarging perianal masses initially suspected to be warts. Family endorsed a 2-year history of generally poor growth but denied gastrointestinal symptoms at our initial visit. Physical examination revealed three fleshy, pedunculated, violaceous masses around the anal sphincter that were rubbery in texture. Pathology indicated inflammatory polyps and further investigations confirmed the diagnosis of anal skin tags secondary to highly active and severe Crohn's disease. This case highlights the essential role of dermatologists in recognizing perianal masses as potential indicators of Crohn's disease, even when classic gastrointestinal symptoms are initially absent, as these findings can enable timely diagnosis and management.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Case report · Consensus signal: Case report
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.007

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0050.004
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0030.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.323
Teacher spread0.315 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designCase report
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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