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Abdominal angina and neurofibromatosis
Mayo Clinic Proceedings
|February 1, 1982
Abstract:
A young man with severe abdominal pain and weight loss due to intestinal ischemia was examined. At operation, the origins of the celiac and superior mesenteric arteries were found to be compressed by plexiform neurofibromatosis. Symptoms were relieved by reconstructive arterial surgery.