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ABDOMINAL PAIN

May 5th, 2008

Abdomnal pain is discomfort feeling in the abdomen. It called acute when the duration less then 6 hours. Abdominal pain can caused by an inflamation (pancreatitis,hepaitis), luminal obstruction, ischemia, bowel motility disorder, multifactorial cause, or ohter nonspecific abdominal pain (NSAP). Common diagnoses for this problem are NSAP, appendicitis, gallstones, pancreatitis, diverticular disease, mesentric vascular occlusion, bowel obstruction and other causes.