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Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
Pain Causes - Differential ... intolerance • SIBO ... • Abdominal wall ... painAbdominal ... #Causes #Differential
Rare Causes of Abdominal Pain
 • Hereditary Angioneurotic Edema - Recurrent visceral that may by swelling
Rare Causes of Abdominal ... painAbdominal ... incisional hernias: clinical ... #Abdominal #Pain ... #differential #
Aortoenteric Fistula - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology:
• Uncommon but life-threatening
• Most common site of bowel connection
Aortoenteric Fistula ... the duodenum Clinical ... pain, and palpable ... Not reliable, so ... • Should be on differential
Widened Pulse Pressure - Differential Diagnosis and Pathophysiology

Pulse pressure is the difference between the systolic blood
Pulse Pressure - Differential ... patient’s absolute SBP ... Pregnancy • Well-conditioned ... Arteriovenous fistula ... Syndrome • Blunt Abdominal
Osgood-Schlatter Disease - MSK Radiology
Imaging Findings:
 • Infrapatellar fat-pad edema with loss of the patellar tendon
Tibial tuberosity pain ... DOES NOT OSD in all ... • MRI is more sensitive ... tibial tuberosity Differential ... #mri #clinical
Pes Anserine Bursitis - MSK Radiology
Imaging Findings:
 • T2-hyperintense fluid-like signal along the medial aspect of
Case description ... include bursal wall ... Differential diagnosis ... similar location of pain ... #mri #clinical
Gout (Gouty Arthritis) - MSK Radiology
Imaging Findings:
 • Eccentric soft-tissue densities surrounding the third proximal interphalangeal
overhanging edges and well ... Case description ... prior signs or clinical ... relatively common, so ... Differential diagnosis
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
Epidemiology: • 1-2 cases ... Guillain-Barre Clinical ... Hands or feet • Pain ... Life threatening labile ... axonal form • MRI
Broncholithiasis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

 • Also known as: Lung stones, pulmoliths, pneumoliths, bronchial calculi
 •
Broncholithiasis - Differential ... Broncholithiasis - Clinical ... patients), • Chest pain ... bronchoaortic fistula ... overlying bronchial wall
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
Vasculitis - Differential ... multiplex • GI tract: Abdominal ... oligoclonal bands • MRI ... tract, and often causes ... gut involvement, abdominal