title: Abdominal pain as presentation of Takayasu's arteritis in an adolescent male patient.
abstract: We describe a boy with chronic abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, and weight loss. The imaging was compatible with Takayasu's arteritis. Chronic mesenteric ischemia was the etiology of the patient's symptoms.
authors.affiliation: GI and Liver Disease Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. zamanif@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Farhad
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zamani
authors.forename: Ramin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shakeri
authors.forename: Omid
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Modiramani
authors.forename: Reza
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Malekzadeh
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013625:Takayasu Arteritis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis