Background:A 43-year-old woman presented with periods of fever of 4 weeks duration, epigastric pain and significant loss of weight (16 kg). Laboratory findings revealed elevated C-reactive protein and slightly elevated liver function tests. She had a history of gastric banding 7 years before, which has been removed 8 weeks before. This surgery was complicated by local abscess formation.
Background:A 39-year-old man presented with nonspecific abdominal pain. He was known with neurofibromatosis type I, with history of café-au-lait spots, multiple cutaneous neurofibromas and osteoporosis. Findings on contrast-enhanced CT scan were rather nonspecific, but inflammatory small bowel disease was suspected.
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