THE COMMON CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE
A. ABDOMIMAL FAIN
Pain, a subjective sensation that generally heralds tissue damage, is the most frequent symptom of gastrointestinal disease and the one that usually brings the patient to the physician. Specific patterns of pain are often helpful in suggesting or establishing a correct diagnosis and may be the most sensitive and specific sign of abdominal disease. For example, the diagnosis of acute appendicitis is established on clinical findings alone; a characteristic, localized, right lower quadrant pain and tenderness occur at a time when the most sophisticated imaging studies, such as computed tomography, are normal. This section will review the etiology, characteristics, and patterns of abdominal pain, concluding with a discussion of the approach to the patient with acute abdominal pain and a brief overview of the irritable bowel syndrome.
- NONPENETRATING TRAUMA
- PATHOLOGY
- Neurologic Manifestations
- Outcomes of Dialysis
- Regulation of Fluids and Electrolytes
- CONTROL OF BREATHING IN DISEASE STATES
- POLYPS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT - Treatment
- CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF MALABSORPTION
- LABORATORY TESTS IN LIVER DISEASE
- NONPHARMACOLOGICAL THERAPY OF TACHYARRHYTHMIAS
- SPECIFIC PATHOGENIC ORGANISMS
- Diet
- GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE
- CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
- CLINICAL PRESENTATION
- CHARACTERISTICS OF ABDOMINAL PAIN
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- Sigmoidoscopy and Colonoscopy
- PHYSIOLOGY OF THE SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION
- Skin and Conjunctiva
- Vitamin Dresistant Rickets
- C. MALABSORPTION
- GASTRITIS
- Differential Diagnosis and Evaluation of the Patient
- Miscellaneous
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- CARCINOMA OF THE PANCREAS - Diagnosis
- Pathology
- CHIP Perinatal Coverage
- Renal Venous Occlusion
- Incidence
- PLEURAL EFFUSIONS
- PERIPHERAL ANEURYSMS AMD FISTULAE
- POLYPS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT - Diagnosis
- Urinary Tract Infection