Dunbar syndrome: An unusual cause of chronic postprandial abdominal pain

Median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS), also known as Dunbar syndrome, is a rare condition in which the celiac artery is compressed by the median arcuate ligament of the diaphragm. We hereby report a case of a 48-year-old female presenting with long-standing abdominal pain and ninety-pound weight l...

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Autores principales: Li, Jonathan, Tan, Xin Yee, Megahed, Ayah, Evangelista, Angela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Gastrointestinal
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7397697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32774573
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.07.016
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description Median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS), also known as Dunbar syndrome, is a rare condition in which the celiac artery is compressed by the median arcuate ligament of the diaphragm. We hereby report a case of a 48-year-old female presenting with long-standing abdominal pain and ninety-pound weight loss who was found to have median arcuate ligament syndrome after extensive workup.
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spelling pubmed-73976972020-08-06 Dunbar syndrome: An unusual cause of chronic postprandial abdominal pain Li, Jonathan Tan, Xin Yee Megahed, Ayah Evangelista, Angela Radiol Case Rep Gastrointestinal Median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS), also known as Dunbar syndrome, is a rare condition in which the celiac artery is compressed by the median arcuate ligament of the diaphragm. We hereby report a case of a 48-year-old female presenting with long-standing abdominal pain and ninety-pound weight loss who was found to have median arcuate ligament syndrome after extensive workup. Elsevier 2020-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7397697/ /pubmed/32774573 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.07.016 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Dunbar syndrome: An unusual cause of chronic postprandial abdominal pain
title Dunbar syndrome: An unusual cause of chronic postprandial abdominal pain
title_full Dunbar syndrome: An unusual cause of chronic postprandial abdominal pain
title_fullStr Dunbar syndrome: An unusual cause of chronic postprandial abdominal pain
title_full_unstemmed Dunbar syndrome: An unusual cause of chronic postprandial abdominal pain
title_short Dunbar syndrome: An unusual cause of chronic postprandial abdominal pain
title_sort dunbar syndrome: an unusual cause of chronic postprandial abdominal pain
topic Gastrointestinal
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7397697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32774573
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.07.016
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