Systemic causes of abdominal pain.

نویسندگان

  • J Matthew Fields
  • Anthony J Dean
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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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Emergency medicine clinics of North America

دوره 29 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011