Paroxystic abdominal pain in children
Erpicum, P.; Demarche, M.
Revue Medicale de Liege 59(5): 331-335
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0370-629X PMID: 15264586 Document Number: 581014
Acute abdominal pain in children is a frequent symptom of a wide spectrum of abdominal and extra-abdominal pathologies. Some of them are more common in specific age groups. Prompt diagnosis and treatment are facilitated by a good knowledge of the etiologies. Although surgery is mandatory in most of the cases of perforation, torsion, ischemia or necrosis, a medical treatment will prevent an unnecessary laparotomy in some circumtances.