Abdominal pain
Abdominal pain represents one of the most common symptoms in medicine; nearly everyone suffers it at some stage. In most cases it is not associated with serious or life- threatening pathology, but the clinician must always be aware that abdominal pain may represent serious pathology.
Abdominal pain is described, as all pains should be, by:
- site
- nature / character
- duration
- intensity
- radiation
- precipitating and relieving factors
- associated symptoms, e.g. nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, constipation
Related pages
Create an account to add page annotations
Annotations allow you to add information to this page that would be handy to have on hand during a consultation. E.g. a website or number. This information will always show when you visit this page.