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A 23-year-old woman of Moroccan Jewish origin was admitted to the hospital with abdominal pain. She had had recurrent attacks of abdominal pain, sometimes with fever, for the previous three months. There were no other gastrointestinal or urinary tract symptoms. Her medical history was unremarkable, and her parents were not related.

Acute abdominal pain may occur in a number of medical conditions. Common causes include gastroenteritis, urinary tract infection, salpingitis, intestinal obstruction, intestinal ischemia, and irritable bowel syndrome. However, a history of recurrent attacks of abdominal pain with fever in a patient of Mediterranean origin immediately suggests a diagnosis of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Rheumatology Unit, Division of Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel (E.B.-C.), and the Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y. (C.P.).

Address reprint requests to Dr. Ben-Chetrit at the Rheumatology Unit, Division of Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, POB-12000, Jerusalem, Israel.

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