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Pediatric Causes of Abdominal Pain

Surgical:
 - Acute appendicitis 
 - Intestinal obstruction including intussusception 
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Pediatric Causes ... - Inflammatory bowel ... Constipation - Recurrent ... Abdominal #Pain #Pediatrics ... #Causes #Differential
Causes and Assessment of the Child with Recurrent Abdominal Pain
> 90% no structural cause identified
Gastrointestinal
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the Child with Recurrent ... • Irritable bowel ... • Inflammatory bowel ... Pelvi-ureteric junction ... Differential #Diagnosis #Pediatrics
Mechanical Bowel Obstruction and Ileus - Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
Ileus: Functional bowel "blockage", no peristalsis
Mechanical Obstruction:
Mechanical Bowel ... Findings Ileus: Functional ... bowel "blockage ... percussion • Nausea ... obstruction #sbo #ileus #pathophysiology
Imaging Modalities for Renal Calculus

AXR. KUB
 - Good far calcium-containing stones useful when limited radiation dose
stone clearance/recurrence ... obstruction - Able ... identify non-calculus causes ... detection with function ... for non-calculus causes
Major Segments of the Nephron and their Functions 
 - Glomerulus - Formation of glomerular filtrate
Nephron and their Functions ... organic acids and bases ... Nephron #Segments #Function ... #Pathophysiology ... #Tubules #Table