Tag: Abdominal

  • Chronic abdominal pain

    Chronic abdominal pain

    It is abdominal pain that persists, repeats itself and become chronic outside of an emergency context. Irritable bowel or functional colopathy are the most common pathologies. The rarer causes are numerous and difficult to diagnose, the obsession of the general practitioner and the urgent request of the painful patients will lead to the realization of many complementary…

  • Acute abdominal pain of the child

    Acute abdominal pain of the child

    Acute abdominal pathology in children is a common cause of admission to emergencies. Interrogation (of the child and his entourage) and a complete clinical examination are essential for the diagnosis, which is quite often difficult because of certain hazards: absence of anamnesis, difficulty of the examination conditions, absence of control an ingestion or inhalation of…

  • Acute abdominal pain of the adult

    Acute abdominal pain of the adult

    Acute abdominal pain in adults is common. Their support still remains difficult today and source of error due to: – the multiplicity of etiologies: more than a hundred disorders; – the clinic sometimes incomplete, atypical or misleading: extradigestive affections, “aberrant” irradiations or variables in time; – in general medicine, the initial clinical examination must make it…

  • Acute abdominal pain

    Acute abdominal pain

    Acute abdominal pain in adults is one of the main reasons for emergency consultation, both among general in hospital emergencies. Acute abdominal pain in adults represent approximately 20% of emergency admissions to hospital. A third of these emergencies represent a surgical treatment of the affection the fastest possible recognition improves the prognosis. It is in…

  • Lower abdominal pain in women

    Lower abdominal pain in women

    Lower abdominal pain in women should be suspected pelvic inflammatory disease (see pelvic inflammatory disease). A pelvic examination should be routinely performed: – Inspection of the vulva and speculum examination looking for purulent discharge or inflammation of the cervix or vagina, and – Abdominal palpation and touch pelvic looking for a pain in cervical motion.…