Refractory abdominal pain - Atypical presentation of takayasu's arteritis

Pain Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 941-943

  Wu, Hong ^a   Virdi, Amarjit ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic abdominal pain; Magnetic resonance angiography; Takayasu's arteritis

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ABDOMINAL WALL; ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANAMNESIS; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; APPENDECTOMY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EATING HABIT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NAUSEA; OBESITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; STOMACH BYPASS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VASCULITIS; VOMITING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; TAKAYASU ARTERITIS;

EID: 68349160696     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2009.00609.x     Document Type: Article

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