title: An unusual cause of peritonitis in a deployed environment.
abstract: Acute abdominal pain is a common presenting complaint to both primary and secondary care, and is a frequent cause of hospital admission among deployed personnel. Identification of generalised peritonism on abdominal examination is a classical indicator of intra-abdominal pathology that may warrant exploratory laparotomy. Negative findings at laparotomy should serve as a diagnostic prompt to consider other non-surgical mimics of an acute abdomen.
authors.affiliation: ST3 Acute Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK.
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Proffitt
authors.affiliation: ST5 General and Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, West Midlands, UK.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Faulconer
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Womack Military Medical Centre, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kreishman
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, San Antonio Military Medical Centre, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Graybill
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, UK.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Craig
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D000328:Adult; D000346:Afghanistan; D010505:Familial Mediterranean Fever / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D006932:Hyperbilirubinemia / Q000209:etiology; D007597:Jordan / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male
keywords: Infectious Diseases