A Practical Approach to Nontraumatic, Nongynecologic Abdominal Pain in the Adolescent Patient.
Abdominal pain is a frequent complaint among adolescents presenting to the emergency department. Complete history, physical examination, and appropriate screening tests are the physician's major tools for differentiating the various etiologies. Although the physician often must be prepared to deal with uncertainty, the first priority is to recognize potentially life-threatening conditions and to institute appropriate consultations or therapies.
Lavelle
JM
Division of General Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 36th Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.