RT Book, Section
A1 Hay, Jr, William W.
A1 Levin, Myron J.
A1 Deterding, Robin R.
A1 Abzug, Mark J.
SR Print(0)
ID 1145453212
T1 Abdominal Pain
T2 Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment Pediatrics
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264257614
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1145453212
RD 2024/04/16
AB Approximately  2–4%  of  all  pediatric  office  visits  occur  because  of  unexplained,  recurrent  abdominal  painUp  to  17%  of  adolescents  have  been  reported  to  have  recurrent  abdominal  painBased  on  the  Rome  III  criteria,  the  term  "recurrent  abdominal  pain"  has  been  discarded  for  the  more  meaningful  terms  that  fall  into  the  categories  of  "abdominal  pain-related  functional  gastrointestinal  (GI)  disorders,"  which  encompasses  four  entitiesFunctional  dyspepsia  (characterized  by  epigastric  pain)Irritable  bowel  syndrome  (characterized  by  altered  form  and  frequency  of  stools  and  improvement  with  defecation)Abdominal  migrainesChildhood  functional  abdominal  pain