Clinical problem-solving. The leading diagnosis--a 23-year-old black woman presented to the emergency department with diffuse, colicky abdominal pain of 1 hour's duration.
Baudendistel
Thomas E
TE
Department of Medicine, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA. baudent@sutterhealth.org
Haase
Amy K
AK
Fitzgerald
Faith
F
D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D000328:Adult; D003085:Colic / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007417:Intestinal Polyps / Q000175:diagnosis; D007443:Intussusception / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D007579:Jejunal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D007911:Lentigo; D010580:Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014839:Vomiting / Q000209:etiology