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Unusual Presentation of a Rare Adult Disease in a 15 Year Old with Charcot's Triad
- Source :
- Section on Medicine Pediatrics.
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- American Academy of Pediatrics, 2017.
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Abstract
- A 15-year-old previously healthy girl presented to the hospital with acute onset fever, epigastric pain, and scleral icterus associated with chills and non-bloody diarrhea. She denied sick contacts, recent travel, or new medications. Family history was significant for a mother with Multiple Sclerosis and a cousin with Crohn's disease (CD). Social history was unremarkable. On arrival, she was febrile to 104 degrees, tachycardic but remained normotensive. On examination, she was nontoxic with obvious scleral icterus. Abdomen was soft, non-distended with RUQ and epigastric tenderness without organomegaly. Murphy's and Rovsing's signs …
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Epigastric pain
Dermatology
Organomegaly
Diarrhea
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Social history (medicine)
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
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Abdomen
Chills
Girl
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Family history
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Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Section on Medicine Pediatrics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9147a991a651b5605d7deeaa3488b310
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.140.1_meetingabstract.49