title: ILIOPSOAS MYOFIBROSITIS - A DIAGNOSTIC CONSIDERATION FOR CHRONIC LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN IN RURAL KENYA.
abstract: Diagnosis for lower abdominal pain is always challenging clinically and more so inthe setting of rural Africa. Eighteen cases of sonographically-shownipsilateral enlargement and echo alteration of iliopsoas muscle have been compiled in patients with chronic lower abdominal pain. Seventy percent of the cases were treated with antibiotic and 30% with additional anti-inflammatory drug. A telephone interview follow up was done to nine patients, in which eight reported improvement after treatment. One case was biopsied and shown to be myofibrositis of iliopsoas muscle.
authors.affiliation: AIC Kijabe Hospital, Kijabe, Kenya.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tjong
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tjong
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005355:Fibrosis; D006801:Humans; D007630:Kenya; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009220:Myositis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016658:Psoas Muscles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D012424:Rural Population; D014463:Ultrasonography; D055815:Young Adult