Abdominal pain causes 5% to 10% of the emergency department (ED) admissions.1-5 One-third of these problems are related to surgery. Most of the diagnoses are nonspecific abdominal pain (34%-52%) or pain with unidentified origin.3,6-8 One of the important tasks of the ED physician is to determine life threatening causes of abdominal pain among the many abdominal pain admissions as well as instit...

Emergency department providers have become skilled at triaging patients with abdominal pain requiring surgical interventions. Abdominal pain mimics, medical conditions that cause the sensation of abdominal pain without abdominal abnormality, continue to puzzle the best physicians.

A bdominal pain is very common among children and adolescents. It can be challenging for parents to figure out what is causing the pain and whether it is serious. When a parent takes the child to the pediatrician to evaluate the abdominal pain, the doctor will ask questions about the pain and do a physical examination. Sometimes other tests such as blood tests, urine tests, or radiology tests a...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the results of diagnostic laparoscopy in children with chronic recurrent abdominal pain. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirteen children with chronic recurrent abdominal pain were subjected to diagnostic laparoscopy. Ages varied from 10 to 17 years. There were six males and seven females. Abdominal pain was present from 3 weeks...

The aims of the study were to identify the frequency and causes of chronic abdominal pain in a large academic primary care population at the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital. We evaluated retrospectively the complete charts of children >4 years old, seen for at least one health maintenance visit in the primary paediatric clinic during a 6-month period, for complaints and causes of chronic...

Focal epilepsy with ictal abdominal pain is an unusual partial epilepsy characterized by paroxysmal episodes of abdominal or visceral pain, disturbance of awareness and electroencephalographic abnormalities. We describe a new case of ictal abdominal pain in which gastrointestinal complaints were the only manifestation of seizures and review the previously described pediatric patients. In our pa...