THE COMMON CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE
A. ABDOMIMAL FAIN
Pain, a subjective sensation that generally heralds tissue damage, is the most frequent symptom of gastrointestinal disease and the one that usually brings the patient to the physician. Specific patterns of pain are often helpful in suggesting or establishing a correct diagnosis and may be the most sensitive and specific sign of abdominal disease. For example, the diagnosis of acute appendicitis is established on clinical findings alone; a characteristic, localized, right lower quadrant pain and tenderness occur at a time when the most sophisticated imaging studies, such as computed tomography, are normal. This section will review the etiology, characteristics, and patterns of abdominal pain, concluding with a discussion of the approach to the patient with acute abdominal pain and a brief overview of the irritable bowel syndrome.
- PENETRATING TRAUMA
- Comprehensive Health-care Program for Children in Foster Care
- Laparoscopy
- Conjugated Hyperbilirubinemia
- Pulmonary Vasculitis
- TREATMENT AND PROGNOSIS
- GLOMERULAR DISEASE
- CLINICAL FEATURES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Lidocaine
- CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE
- Focal Glomerular Sclerosis (FQS)
- Hepatic Encephalopathy
- Community Acquired Pneumonia
- PATHOGENESIS OF RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION
- Chromic Renal Failure Due to Drugs
- TREATMENT
- CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS
- CHROMIC PANCREATITIS
- Renal Glycosuria
- DC CARDIOVERSION AND DEFIBRILLATION
- CHROMC BROriCMITIS
- INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
- RHEUMATIC FEVER
- TRAMSPLATTTATION
- PERICARDIAL DISEASES - ACUTE PERICARDITIS
- NORMAL INTESTINAL PHYSIOLOGY
- Urolithiasis
- Proteinuria
- DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND THEIR INDICATIONS - IMAGING PROCEDURES
- RAYNAUD’S PHENOMENON
- SPECIFIC CLINICAL DISORDERS
- Mixed Glomerulopathies
- DRUGS
- Phosphate Balance
- EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON PULMONARY FUNCTION