[Acute abdominal pain in a 8-year-old girl with Epstein-Barr infection]

O Gisserot; C Landais; S Cremades; P Bernard; J P de Jaureguiberry

doi:10.1016/j.arcped.2004.11.025

[Acute abdominal pain in a 8-year-old girl with Epstein-Barr infection]

Arch Pediatr. 2005 Mar;12(3):288-90. doi: 10.1016/j.arcped.2004.11.025.

[Article in French]

Authors

O Gisserot¹, C Landais, S Cremades, P Bernard, J P de Jaureguiberry

Affiliation

¹ Service de médecine interne-oncologie, hôpital d'instruction des armées Sainte-Anne, 83800 Toulon, France.

PMID: 15734126
DOI: 10.1016/j.arcped.2004.11.025

Abstract

Abdominal pain is uncommon in patient with Epstein-Barr infection and is usually attributed to an enlargement of the liver or spleen. We report on an 8-year-old girl with a pseudoperitonitis due to a mesenteric lymphadenitis associated with Epstein-Barr infection. Outcome was favourable without surgery. We review the different causes of abdominal pain occurring during Epstein-Barr infection.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Abdominal Pain / diagnostic imaging
Abdominal Pain / etiology*
Acute Disease
Antibodies, Viral / analysis
Child
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Herpesvirus 4, Human / immunology
Herpesvirus 4, Human / isolation & purification
Humans
Immunoglobulin M / analysis
Infectious Mononucleosis / complications*
Infectious Mononucleosis / diagnosis
Mesenteric Lymphadenitis / complications*
Mesenteric Lymphadenitis / diagnosis
Mesenteric Lymphadenitis / diagnostic imaging
Mesenteric Lymphadenitis / etiology*
Radiography, Abdominal
Time Factors
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Antibodies, Viral
Immunoglobulin M