Descending Colon Cancer with Hepatic Metastasis on Abdominal Ultrasound in Patients with Left Lower Abdominal Pain

Isolated Splenic Metastasis Presenting with Continuous Fever and Abdominal Pain

Colon sarcoidosis presenting with abdominal pain.

Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic disease of unknown cause that is diagnosed on the basis of the history and demonstration of granulomas in involved organs in patients before the age of 50 years; peak incidence occurs between the ages of 20 and 39 years [1]. The gastrointestinal tract is involved in less than 1% of all cases of sarcoidosis [1,2]. The stomach is the most commonly involved part of t...

Lower Abdominal Pain/Suprapubic Pain

P. Gontero et al. (eds.), Problem Based Urology, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4634-6_2, © Springer-Verlag London 2013 Abstract The term “lower abdomen” refers to the portion of abdomen below the umbilicus in which three topographic regions can be identi fi ed: the hypogastrium in the middle and the left and right iliac fossa, both located lateral to the hypogastrium, in the left and right inferior pa...

isolated splenic metastasis presenting with continuous fever and abdominal pain

Chronic Abdominal Pain (with Emphasis on Functional Abdominal Pain Syndrome)

FAPS is a distinct medical disorder, part of the group of functional gastrointestinal disorders. These disorders are characterized by chronic, recurrent, or continuous abdominal pain that is poorly related to gut function, often not well localized. They are more properly understood as an abnormal perception of normal (regulatory) gut function rather than as a motility disorder . Criteria for a ...