A 58-year-old woman with abdominal symptoms and elevated C-reactive protein

PLoS Med. 2008 Jul 1;5(7):e149. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050149.

Abstract

Babak Javid and colleagues discuss the differential diagnosis, investigation, and management of a woman with abdominal symptoms and a raised C-reactive protein.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Abdominal Pain / blood*
  • Abdominal Pain / diagnosis*
  • Biomarkers / blood
  • C-Reactive Protein / metabolism*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Diarrhea / blood
  • Diarrhea / diagnosis
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunoassay / standards
  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / blood
  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / diagnosis
  • Middle Aged

Substances

  • Biomarkers
  • C-Reactive Protein