PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Adrian Proffitt
AU  - R Faulconer
AU  - P Kreishman
AU  - S Graybill
AU  - D Craig
TI  - An unusual cause of peritonitis in a deployed environment
AID  - 10.1136/jramc-2013-000185
DP  - 2015 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
PG  - 69--70
VI  - 161
IP  - 1
4099  - http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/161/1/69.short
4100  - http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/161/1/69.full
SO  - J R Army Med Corps2015 Mar 01; 161
AB  - Acute abdominal pain is a common presenting complaint to both primary and secondary care, and is a frequent cause of hospital admission among deployed personnel. Identification of generalised peritonism on abdominal examination is a classical indicator of intra-abdominal pathology that may warrant exploratory laparotomy. Negative findings at laparotomy should serve as a diagnostic prompt to consider other non-surgical mimics of an acute abdomen.