Acute Abdomen in a Peripheral Military Hospital

Acute pancreatitis in a peripheral hospital.

PANCREATITIS is a disease of variable aetiology and the acute form usually presents as an acute albdominal pain. The incidence in the general community has been estimated as five cases per hundred thousand per year. (Trapnell, 1968). In hospital the incidence has been put at one in six hundred admissions (Robbins, 1967) or at one hundred cases in fifteen hundred acute abdominal emergencies over...

Acute abdomen in a septuagenarian.

A 72-year-old lady presented with abdominal pain and distention of 3 days duration. She did not pass flatus and stools and had few episodes of bilious vomiting for 2 days. She had no past history of abdominal pain or surgery. Coronal CT scan section of abdomen (Fig. 1) showed classical Rigler’s triad of pneumobilia, dilatation of small bowel loops and ectopic gallstone which is characteristic o...

Epstein-Barr Virus Myocarditis Presenting as Acute Abdomen in a Child: a Case Report

Introduction Epstein-Barr  virus  (EBV)  infection  can  present  with  a  variety  of  manifestation. Case Report  Here  we  present  a  case  of  a  7  year- old  immunocompetent  girl  who  came  with  acute  abdominal  pain ,  had  echocardiographic  evidence  of  myocardial  dysfunction  and  finally  was  diagnosed  as  a  case  of  serologically  proven  acute  EBV  infection. Conclusion...

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Acute Abdomen

The term 'acute abdomen' represents a rapid onset of severe symptoms that may indicate lifethreatening intra-abdominal pathology. Pain is usually a feature but is not always the case. A pain-free acute abdomen is more likely in the elderly, in children and in the third trimester of pregnancy. [1] The differential diagnosis is extremely wide and definitive diagnosis is often difficult, particula...