Open AccessPattern and presentation of acute abdomen in a Nigerian teaching hospital
Author(s) -
John Agboola,
Samuel Olatoke,
Ganiyu A. Rahman
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
nigerian medical journal/nigerian medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-774X
pISSN - 0300-1652
DOI - 10.4103/0300-1652.132068
Subject(s) - medicine , etiology , acute abdomen , incidence (geometry) , general surgery , abdomen , presentation (obstetrics) , population , surgical emergency , epidemiology , disease , abdominal pain , surgery , pediatrics , physics , environmental health , optics
Abdominal pain of sudden onset is the hallmark of most non-traumatic emergency surgical presentations. This presents a scenario of urgency to the young surgeon who has to determine which of a myriad of disease conditions the patient is presenting with. Such a physician has to rely on experience and a sound knowledge of the local aetiological spectrum in making a clinical diagnosis.