Study on abdominal pain in children

ABSTRACT

This study analyzed the commonest causes of abdominal pain. It was done on 170 children [89 males and 81 females] who suffering from abdominal pain, their ages ranged from 2 to 12 years. Every patient was subjected to detailed history, thorough general and local examination and routine investigations as stool, urine analyzes and complete blood picture. Other laboratory investigations [X- ray, ultrasound, CT scan, endoscopy and biopsy] were done, when needed. Abdominal pain in patients was either acute or recurrent, 30 patients were presenting with acute abdominal pain, 18 of them had surgical causes and 12 had medical causes