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Abstract
Acute abdomen is a sudden severe abdominal pain of unclear etiology that is less than 24 hours in duration. Acute abdominal pain in children presents a diagnostic dilemma. A large-scale of disorders ranging from benign, self-limited diseases to conditions that require immediate surgery can cause acute abdominal pain, which require rapid diagnosis and treatment to minimize morbidity. Despite the advent of ultrasonography, computer assisted tomography and magnetic resonance technology, clinical assessment remains the major diagnostic tool in pediatric emergencies.
It is the most common cause of hospital admission in the world. It accounts for 5% to 10% of all emergency department visits. However, up to 35% to 40% of all these admissions, the pain is nonspecific. In Egypt, “Abdominal pain is the presenting complaint in 1.5 percent of office-based visits and in 5 percent of the emergency department visits. Only 10 percent of patients in the emergency department setting and a lesser percentage in the outpatient setting have a severe or life-threatening condition or require immediate surgery.
Our aim of this work was to discuss and identify the attributes of surgical causes of common acute abdominal problems with the development of a simplified clinical algorithm for the triage of children with surgical causes of common acute abdominal problems.
The present study was conducted on 100 child of both sex aged between 1st day and 12 years old of both sex presented with surgical causes of common acute abdominal problems During a period of( one year) from first of December 2015 to end of November 2016 after taking presents consent.