TY - JOUR T1 - Acute abdomen in a young patient: the distant culprit JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 84 LP - 84 DO - 10.1136/emermed-2012-202004 VL - 31 IS - 1 AU - Sukhvinder Singh AU - Vijay Soni Y1 - 2014/01/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/31/1/84.abstract N2 - A 24-year-old man presented with severe abdomen pain of 4 days duration. He was an intravenous drug abuser without significant past illness. Examination revealed tachycardia, normal blood pressure and diffuse abdominal tenderness. Chest roentgenogram showed cardiomegaly. Contrast enhanced CT scan of abdomen showed short segment of intraluminal filling defect in the distal part of the superior mesenteric artery, just before its bifurcation, suggestive of thrombus (figure 1). It also showed peripheral poorly enhancing hypodense area of subsegmental infarct involving cortical and … ER -