Tag Hugh M. Paterson

Introduction ‘The acute abdomen’ includes a spectrum of surgical, medical and gynaecologic conditions, ranging from trivial to life-threatening, which require hospital admission for urgent investigation and treatment. The primary symptom of the condition is abdominal pain. For the purposes of…

The acute abdomen may be defined as ‘abdominal pain of non-traumatic origin with a maximum duration of 5 days’. There is a long list of causes ranging from the entirely benign, requiring no particular management other than reassurance, to the…