An easily overlooked cause of abdominal pain

A 63 year old female presented to the emergency department with a several month history of intermittent right upper quadrant abdominal pain, early satiety with loss of appetite, and an unintentional weight loss of 8. She underwent a battery of tests that returned negative and subsequently sent for C...

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Autores principales: Bennett, Kyle, Rettew, Andrew, Shaikh, Bilal, Supplee, Suzanne, Alweis, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2014
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Clinical Imaging
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4246151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25432644
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v4.25083
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author Bennett, Kyle
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Shaikh, Bilal
Supplee, Suzanne
Alweis, Richard
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description A 63 year old female presented to the emergency department with a several month history of intermittent right upper quadrant abdominal pain, early satiety with loss of appetite, and an unintentional weight loss of 8. She underwent a battery of tests that returned negative and subsequently sent for Computed tomographic angiography (CTA) of the abdomen revealing luminal stenosis of the proximal 1 cm of the celiac axis estimating 90% occlusion and a patent SMA and IMA with, typical for median arcuate ligament syndrome. The symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-42461512014-12-15 An easily overlooked cause of abdominal pain Bennett, Kyle Rettew, Andrew Shaikh, Bilal Supplee, Suzanne Alweis, Richard J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Clinical Imaging A 63 year old female presented to the emergency department with a several month history of intermittent right upper quadrant abdominal pain, early satiety with loss of appetite, and an unintentional weight loss of 8. She underwent a battery of tests that returned negative and subsequently sent for Computed tomographic angiography (CTA) of the abdomen revealing luminal stenosis of the proximal 1 cm of the celiac axis estimating 90% occlusion and a patent SMA and IMA with, typical for median arcuate ligament syndrome. The symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options are discussed. Co-Action Publishing 2014-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4246151/ /pubmed/25432644 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v4.25083 Text en © 2014 Kyle Bennett et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4246151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25432644
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