Abdominal pain

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One abdominal pain can be one of symptoms associated passing disorders or a serious illness. To establish a final diagnosis of the cause of the abdominal pains of a patient can be rather difficult, considering so many diseases can cause this symptom.

Introduction

An abdominal pain is traditionally described by its chronicity (acute or chronic), its evolution in the course of time, its nature (moderated, intense, colics), its distribution (by various methods, the such abdominal quadrant (left higher quadrant, left lower quadrant, quadrant higher right, quadrant lower right) or other methods which divide the abdomen into nine sections), and by the characterization of the factors which worsen it or make it less important.

Approaches

Considering the various systems of bodies represented in the abdomen, an abdominal pain will relate to it general practitioner, surgeons, internists, urgentists, pediatrists, gastro-enterologists, urologists and them gynaecologists. In certain cases, if it acts of a rare cause, patients are brought to consult more than one specialist before the establishment of an adequate diagnosis (for example chronic functional abdominal pain ).

Types and mechanisms

Some causes

See too

• Examination of the abdomen

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