Acute abdominal pain

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• Synonyms

  • Acute abdomen

• Causes

  • Infective gastroenteritis
  • Acute gastritis
  • Rupture of abdominal viscus
  • Peritonitis
  • Appendicitis
  • Meckels diverticulum
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Small bowel obstruction
  • Bowel infarction
  • Toxic megacolon
  • Acute pancreatitis
  • Ruptured aortic aneurysm
  • Ectopic pregnancy
  • Torsion of ovarian cyst
  • Acute urinary retention
  • Urinary tract infection
  • Endometriosis
  • Referred abdominal pain
  • Carcinoid tumour
  • Diabetic ketoacidosis
  • Sickle cell crisis
  • Splenic infarction
  • Food allergy
  • Addisonian crisis
  • Haemochromatosis
  • Hypercalcaemia
  • Musculoskeletal pain
  • Henoch-Schonlein purpura
  • Tender hepatomegaly
  • Digoxin toxicity
  • Acute intermittent porphyria

• Parents

  • Abdominal pain