Acute Abdominal pain is a common presentation in emergency as well as in outpatient settings and can present conditions ranging from benign to life threatening.
Acute abdominal pain is a common presentation in ambulatory setting accounting for 1.5% of all office-based visits and 8% of all ER department visits in the United States.
Although the patient history, physical examination and laboratory tests results can narrow the differential diagnosis, imaging is often required for definitive diagnosis and treatment. Abdominal pain can be caused by a staggering amount of pathologies which can be impossible to differentiate through clinical examinations. Further investigation by imaging is most often required. Computed tomography (CT) is currently
Acute abdominal pain is a common presentation in ambulatory setting accounting for 1.5% of all office-based visits and 8% of all ER department visits in the United States.
Although the patient history, physical examination and laboratory tests results can narrow the differential diagnosis, imaging is often required for definitive diagnosis and treatment. Abdominal pain can be caused by a staggering amount of pathologies which can be impossible to differentiate through clinical examinations. Further investigation by imaging is most often required. Computed tomography (CT) is currently