acute abdomen

acute appendicitis markaboyev abror 519 group an abdominal condition of abrupt onset associated with severe abdominal pain (resulting from inflammation, obstruction, infarction, perforation, or rupture of intra-abdominal organs). acute abdomen requires urgent evaluation and diagnosis because it may indicate a condition that requires urgent surgical intervention visceral pain comes from abdominal/pelvic viscera transmitted by visceral afferent nerve fibres in response to stretching or excessive contraction dull in nature and vague poorly localised foregut  epigastrium midgut  para-umbilical hindgut  suprapubic somatic pain comes from parietal peritoneum (which is innervated by somatic nerves) sharp in nature well localised made worse by movement, better by lying still referred pain pain ...

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