-
Acta medica Austriaca · Jan 2000
Case Reports[Retroperitoneal fibrosis as the etiology for recent onset of abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting--a rare and easily missed differential diagnosis].
- J Auer, R Berent, G Hinterholzer, G Falkensammer, W Pauer, and P Knoflach.
- I. Interne Abteilung mit Gastroenterologie, Rheumatologie und Endokrinologie, A.ö. Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern vom Hl. Kreuz, Grieskirchner Strasse 42, A-4600 Wels. johann.auer@khwels.at
- Acta Med. Austriaca. 2000 Jan 1; 27 (5): 163-7.
AbstractRetroperitoneal fibrosis is a rare disease with unspecific symptomatic signs. Mortality rates are high with a 10-year mortality rate of 10 to 20%. We describe a case of a 55 year old woman with retroperitoneal fibrosis and discuss clinical findings, symptomatic signs, diagnosis, and treatment of this rare disease.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..