Systemic causes of abdominal pain.
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چکیده
A variety of systemic and extra-abdominal diseases can cause symptoms within the abdominal cavity. Systemic and extra-abdominal diseases may include abdominal symptoms caused by several mechanisms. This article discusses the most important and common of these causes, namely the metabolic/endocrine causes, hematologic causes, inflammatory causes, infectious causes, functional causes, and the neurogenic causes.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Emergency medicine clinics of North America
دوره 29 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011