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ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2024

Episodic Abdominal Pain-An Unexpected Cause for a Common Clinical Problem.

Tim William Böttger, Matthias Turina, Falko Ensle, Daniela Mihic-Probst, Christoph Andreas Meier, Sara Ersözlü

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Article in Journal of general internal medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Tim William BöttgerDepartment of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. t.boettger@med.uni-frankfurt.de.ORCID 0009-0007-2058-5498
Matthias TurinaDepartment of Visceral Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Zurich, University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Falko EnsleDiagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1097-404X
Daniela Mihic-ProbstInstitute of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Christoph Andreas MeierDepartment of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Sara ErsözlüDepartment of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-7276-7444

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A previously healthy 55-year-old male patient presented repeatedly to the emergency department with severe episodic periumbilical abdominal pain. After an extensive diagnostic work-up and subsequent clinical deterioration, appendiceal diverticulitis was diagnosed. We identified a correlation of white blood cell counts and possibly faecal calprotectin with the clinical presentation. We suggest that appendiceal diverticulitis should be considered in middle-aged patients with recurrent episodes of abdominal pain that correlate with laboratory markers of inflammation.

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Abdominal PainDiagnosis, DifferentialDiverticulitisHumansMaleMiddle Aged

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PMID38503933
PMCPMC11255157

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