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Small Bowel Obstruction
Small-bowel obstruction caused acute abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and fever. However, it is not small-bowel obstruction because the stool is brown, loose and was profuse during the night but is somewhat less this morning. The patient has had bowel movements so the small-bowel obstruction is not the case. The pain is localized to the left lower quadrant in the McBurney's point

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