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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Stolk, J M
• van Nieuwkoop, C
• van der Voorn, M P J A
• van Erp, S
• van Burgel, N D

Titel

Ticking off diagnoses of abdominal pain: early neuroborreliosis with radiculopathy

Ist Teil von

• Netherlands journal of medicine, 2018-09, Vol.76 (7), p.336-338

Ort / Verlag

Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Lyme disease (LD) is the most common tick-borne illness. The diagnosis of LD is difficult because of the great variation in clinical manifestations. Although abdominal pain is generally not considered a sign of LD, in this case report we describe a patient with unexplained severe abdominal pain that eventually turned out to be LD due to radiculopathy. Since the incidence of LD is rising it is important to realise that severe abdominal pain could be the first clinical manifestation of early neuroborreliosis.