Diagnosis
- history and appropriate ethnic background suggest the diagnosis
- exclusion of other causes of a similar clinical picture:
- acute pancreatitis
- acute appendicitis
- porphyria
- intestinal obstruction
- cholecystitis
- raised levels of plasma dopamine beta-hydroxylase
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