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. 2022 May 11;134(11-12):487–496. doi: 10.1007/s00508-022-02025-y

Table 1.

Causes of pseudoacute abdomen [79]

Acute intermittent porphyria
Diabetic pseudoperitonitis
Sickle cell crisis
Chronic lead poisoning
Addison’s disease
Familial Mediterranean fever
Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
Infectious diseases (typhoid fever, hantavirus, malaria, leptospirosis)
Vasculitis (Henoch-Schönlein purpura, periarteritis nodosa)
Hereditary angioedema
Acute glaucoma
Proptosis
Abdominal epilepsy
Myocardial infarction, acute pericarditis
Dissection of the abdominal aorta
Basal pneumonia, lung infarction, pleurodynia
Hematoma of the abdominal wall (hematoma of the rectus muscle due to anticoagulation)
Herpes zoster