Summary
Differentials
Common
- Constipation
- Acute appendicitis
- Gastroenteritis
- Urinary tract infection
- Abdominal trauma (blunt or penetrating)
- Cholelithiasis/cholecystitis
- Primary dysmenorrhoea
- Pneumonia
- Functional abdominal pain
Uncommon
- Intussusception
- Meckel's diverticulum
- Mesenteric adenitis
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Ulcerative colitis
- Crohn's disease
- Small bowel obstruction
- Volvulus
- Large bowel obstruction
- Necrotising enterocolitis
- Peptic ulcer disease
- Coeliac disease
- Viral hepatitis
- Biliary dyskinesia
- Acute pancreatitis
- Splenic infarction/cysts
- Nephrolithiasis
- Testicular torsion
- Ovarian torsion
- Ruptured ovarian cyst
- Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
- Pregnancy complications
- Empyema
Contributors
Authors
Professor
Department of Pediatric Surgery
McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston
TX
Disclosures
KT declares that he has no competing interests.
Resident and Pediatric Surgery Research Fellow
Department of Pediatric Surgery
McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston
Tx
Disclosures
KTA declares that she has no competing interests.
Dr KuoJen Tsao and Dr Kathryn Tinsley Anderson would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Luke R. Putnam, Dr Shinil K. Shah, Dr Nathan D. Allison, and Dr Peter A. Walker, previous contributors to this topic.
Peer reviewers
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore
MD
Disclosures
AOS declares that she has no competing interests.
Professor of Surgery
University of Missouri
Kansas City Children's Mercy Hospital
Kansas City
MO
Disclosures
CLS declares that he has no competing interests.
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
MD
Disclosures
KAY declares that she has no competing interests.
Consultant Paediatric Surgeon
Department of Paediatric Surgery
Birmingham Children's Hospital
Birmingham
UK
Disclosures
RGB declares that he has no competing interests.
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