[Acute epigastric pain after travel to the tropics. Emergency admission of a 28-year-old stewardess].
A 28-year-old stewardess was admitted to hospital with violent cramp-like pain in the right upper abdomen, which was accompanied by a single episode of watery pasty diarrhea. Over the next few days her symptoms persisted, she developed a high fever, and her general state of health deteriorated. Ultrasonography repeated on the fourth day then revealed a small space-consuming lesion in the right lobe of the liver. While the laboratory investigations initially remained negative, the suspected amebic abscess and colitis were subsequently also confirmed serologically.
Steimann
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R
Abteilung Innere Medizin I, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Stuttgart.
Schäfer
A
A
Kühne
D
D
Budde
T
T
Loew
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H
D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000209:etiology*; D000401:Aircraft; D000818:Animals; D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan / Q000097:blood; D004630:Emergencies; D004748:Entamoeba histolytica / Q000276:immunology; D004749:Entamoebiasis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008101:Liver Abscess, Amebic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014195:Travel; D014463:Ultrasonography
D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan