Periostitis Pubis
Chronic abdominal pain due to periostitis
pubis. Rubenstein, NH. Postgraduate Medicine, 1992;91:147-150.
Periostitis
pubis is a new condition in the medical literature which
is characterized by lower abdominal pain persisting for several
weeks to several years. Physical findings include tenderness
in one of the abdominal quadrants and over the os pubis.
During the next five years the doctor noted 12 more of these
cases. The doctor reports that this condition may be of “mechanical
origin.”
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