Flatulence and right lower quadrant pain

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A 53 year old female presents with: abdominal cramping and tenderness, fever, anorexia, weight loss, spasm, flatulence, and right lower quadrant (RLQ) pain. Stools are soft or semiliquid. Observable blood is found in the stool intermittently. They state symptoms are worse when they eat spicy food or with emotional upset. The physical exam reveals abdominal tenderness with a tubular, tender mass in the RLQ. Group of answer choices crohn's disease, appendicitis, tubo-ovarian abscess ectopic pregnancy, UTI, pyelonephritis cholecystitis, ovarian cyst, renal colic gastoenteritis, umbilical hernia, celiac disease.

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