title: [Challenge in diagnostics of abdominal complaints in children].
abstract: In the present review, abdominal pains were discussed as the most common complaints in children. Abdominal pains were divided into acute and chronic, organic and functional. The most common causes of abdominal pain, alarming symptoms (red flags) in medical history and physical examination and indications to urgent surgical treatment were enumerated. An attention was laid on the difficulty in assessment of intensity and localization of the pain in children. The principal role of physician and caregivers as well as diagnostic challenge in the youngest children was emphasized. Diagnostic criteria of gastrointestinal functional disorders accompanied by abdominal pain were analyzed. Diagnostic process in abdominal pain was presented.
authors.affiliation: II Katedra i Klinika Pediatrii, Gastroenterologii i Zywienia, Akademii Medycznej we Wrocławiu.
authors.forename: Franciszek
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Iwańczak
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D012720:Severity of Illness Index