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Query: UMLS:C0000737 (
abdominal pain
)
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document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
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.
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PMID:ILIOPSOAS MYOFIBROSITIS - A DIAGNOSTIC CONSIDERATION FOR CHRONIC LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN IN RURAL KENYA. 2687 25
