Summary
Differentials
Common
- GORD
- Peptic ulcer disease
- Infectious gastroenteritis
- Lactase deficiency
- Chronic cholecystitis, Chronic cholelithiasis
- Nephrolithiasis
- Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Gastroparesis
- Functional dyspepsia
- Centrally mediated abdominal pain syndrome (CAPS)
- Chronic abdominal wall pain
- Referred pain
Uncommon
- Crohn's disease
- Ulcerative colitis
- Subacute intestinal obstruction
- Coeliac disease
- Chronic pancreatitis
- Oesophageal cancer
- Gastric cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Hepatocellular cancer
- Cholangiocarcinoma
- Ovarian cancer
- Chronic mesenteric ischaemia
- Superior mesenteric artery syndrome
- Acute intermittent porphyria
- Heavy metal poisoning (lead, arsenic)
- Familial Mediterranean fever
- Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria
- Chronic pyelonephritis
- Endometriosis
- Ovarian cystic disease
- Narcotic bowel syndrome
- Abdominal migraine
Contributors
Authors
Tamar Ringel-Kulka, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Maternal and Child Health
Gillings School of Global Public Health
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
NC
Disclosures
TRK declares that she has no competing interests.
Yehuda Ringel, MD
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
NC
Disclosures
YR declares that he has no competing interests.
Acknowledgements
Drs Tamar Ringel-Kulka and Yehuda Ringel would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr A. Sidney Barritt IV, a previous contributor to this topic.
Disclosures
ASB declares that he has no competing interests.
Peer reviewers
Fernando Aycinena, MD
Surgery Resident
Department of Surgery
University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
Knoxville
TN
Disclosures
FA declares that he has no competing interests.
Ned Snyder, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine
Chief of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston
TX
Disclosures
NS declares that he has no competing interests.
Srikrishna Nagri, MD
Gastroenterologist
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nashua
Nashua
NH
Disclosures
SN declares that he has no competing interests.
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