[A boy with abdominal pain and a hypertympanic abdomen]

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2020 Jan 23:164:D3707.
[Article in Dutch]

Abstract

A 6-year-old boy, known with Potocki-Lupski syndrome (17p11.2 duplication), mild intellectual disability and constipation, presented with episodes of abdominal pain. His defecation pattern was normal with polyethylene glycol. Physical examination showed a hypertympanic distended abdomen. Extreme dilatation and elongation of the colon was seen on abdominal x-ray, corresponding with aerophagia.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abdomen / pathology
  • Abdominal Pain / congenital
  • Abdominal Pain / pathology*
  • Abnormalities, Multiple / pathology*
  • Child
  • Chromosome Disorders / complications
  • Chromosome Disorders / pathology*
  • Chromosome Duplication
  • Colon / pathology
  • Constipation / congenital
  • Constipation / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Male

Supplementary concepts

  • Potocki-Lupski syndrome