Circling Back for the Diagnosis
- 2 November 2017
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 377 (18) , 1778-1784
Abstract
A 28-year-old man presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. He reported 6 weeks of intermittent upper and lower abdominal pain on the right side, which worsened with food intake and usually improved within 1 to 2 hours with antacids.Keywords
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