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
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