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Editor’s quiz: GI snapshot
Unusual history of ‘stitch’
  1. Geraldine Dahlqvist1,
  2. Lancelot Marique2
  1. 1 Hepatogastroenterology and Liver Transplantation, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Bruxelles, Belgium
  2. 2 Abdominal Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Bruxelles, Belgium
  1. Correspondence to Pr Geraldine Dahlqvist, Hepatogastroenterology and liver transplantation, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Bruxelles, Belgium; geraldine.dahlqvist{at}uclouvain.be

https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2023-331869

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    Clinical presentation

    A 67-year-old man presented to the consultation in September 2022 with abdominal pain, described as a ‘stitch’ by the patient, occurring in crisis, and localised at the right hypochondrium in the last 6 months.

    His medical history was marked by a cholecystectomy in 2017 and a metabolic syndrome. In addition, he reported an abdominal trauma at the age of 8 with a metal swing.

    He was treated with metformin, tamsulosin, amlodipine and valsartan.

    His laboratory blood tests were unremarkable.

    An abdominal ultrasound was performed showing an atypical lesion of the liver segment VII. A dual-energy CT …

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors GD and LM designed and wrote together the case report.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.