PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Proffitt, Adrian AU - Faulconer, R AU - Kreishman, P AU - Graybill, S AU - Craig, D 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.