Abdominal pain from intestinal duplication.
Intestinal duplication is a rare cause of abdominal pain in adults, and may elude diagnosis prior to exploratory laparotomy. We describe a 20-year-old man who had severe abdominal pain with an ileal duplication complicated by a penetrating ulcer within ectopic gastric mucosa.
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Department of Medicine (Gastroenterology), University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky 40292.
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Sewell
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D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000209:etiology*; D000328:Adult; D002828:Choristoma / Q000150:complications; D005753:Gastric Mucosa; D006801:Humans; D007078:Ileal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D007082:Ileum / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D010439:Peptic Ulcer Perforation / Q000150:complications