Right low abdominal pain (RLAP): a new signal in food allergy

نویسندگان

  • Isaac Azevedo Tenorio
  • Aderbal Sabra
  • Selma Sabra
چکیده

Results Our patients were 48% male and 52 % female, and those numbers are not different from those of the pertinent literature. The age was distributed according with the literature, similar to all tree groups: 42.8% were infants, 32.7% were children (3 to 13 years) and 24.5% were adolescents and adults. In anamneses of the GALT system, the abdominal pain was the most frequent complain, present in 15.6% of the patients, followed by diarrhea and vomits in 12.6 and constipation in 11.7%, next to them we had vomiting in 11.7% of patients studied. In the physical examination of the patients selected to the study, pain of the right inferior abdômen was present in 18% of patients followed by abdominal distension in 13.5%. Left abdominal pain was found in 3.3% . Epigastric pain and splenomegaly in 2.6%.

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دوره 8  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015