Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Abdominal Pain and Diarrhea

An 18 year-old female presents to the emergency department with abdominal pain and diarrhea. She describes a gradual onset of sharp pain in her lower abdomen this morning that has progressively worsened with associated fever, chills, nausea and anorexia. She also reports having 3 watery bowel movements today without any blood or melena. 

A CT scan of the patient's abdomen and pelvis is shown below: 






What is the diagnosis?

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The diagnosis for this case will be posted in approximately 1 week.



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