Thoracic spondylodiscitis presenting as abdominal pain

Thoracic meningioma masquerading as chronic abdominal pain.

Chronic abdominal pain without a structural or metabolic gastroenterological etiology can be extremely challenging to diagnose. Patients presenting with an associated radicular pattern of pain may alert the clinician to a possible structural neurological cause of the symptoms. We present the case of a 70-year-old woman who presented to our institution with an 18-month history of...

Thoracic Disc Herniation Presenting with Predominant Abdominal Pain

Introduction: The incidence of symptomatic thoracic disc herniation (TDH) is quite low, and most patients present with either radiculopathy as pain in the chest wall or thoracic myelopathy involving the lower extremities. However, not only these typical symptoms, but also various other symptoms pointing to other general diseases can be the sole presenting complaints. We describe a rare case in ...

Eosinophilic Jejunitis Presenting as Intractable Abdominal Pain

Eosinophilic gastroenteritis is an uncommon disease characterized by eosinophilic infiltration of the gastrointestinal tract. The clinical manifestations are related to the layer(s) and extent of the bowel involved. In this paper, we present a case of intractable abdominal pain caused by jejunal submucosal eosinophilic infiltration without mucosal involvement, diagnosed by deep endoscopic biops...

Delayed Spondylodiscitis Presenting as a Skip Lesion

Spondylodiscitis is believed to be caused by an infection that affects vertebral bodies and the intervening intervertebral disc. Usually, typical spondylodiscitis involves a mobile vertebra-disc-vertebra unit, and in most cases, the condition is managed successfully by surgical intervention and intravenous antibiotic therapy. Here, the authors report an unusual case of a spondylodiscitis presen...

Isolated Splenic Metastasis Presenting with Continuous Fever and Abdominal Pain