A 12-Year-Old Girl with Weight Loss

NEJM Evid. 2023 Feb;2(2):EVIDmr2200308. doi: 10.1056/EVIDmr2200308. Epub 2023 Jan 24.

Abstract

A 12-Year-Old Girl with Weight LossThis report examines a case of chronic weight loss, anxiety, abdominal pain, and nausea in an adolescent girl. With directed questioning, physical examination, and testing, an illness script for the presentation emerges; the differential is refined until a final diagnosis is made.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abdominal Pain* / diagnosis
  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Nausea
  • Weight Loss*