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Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Weekly Clinicopathological Exercises
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Volume 329:343-349 July 29, 1993 Number 5
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Case 30-1993— A 59-Year-Old Woman with Abdominal Pain and an Abnormal CT Scan
Irving Waxman, and Carolyn C. Compton

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A 59-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of left-sided abdominal pain.

She had been well until two hours after dinner on the evening before entry, when she experienced the onset of intermittent crampy abdominal pain that was more severe in the left upper quadrant than in the left lower quadrant. She was referred to the hospital early the next morning.

The patient was a housewife. There was a history of asthma, which was managed with an albuterol inhaler, and of spondyloarthropathy, which involved the lumbar spine and knees and was treated with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs. For more than . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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