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A clinical syndrome with acute abdominal pain that is severe, localized, and rapid in onset. Acute abdomen may be caused by a variety of disorders, injuries, or diseases.
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- Abdomen, Acute
- Abdomens, Acute
- Acute Abdomens
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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- National Library of Medicine. Acute Abdomen. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000006. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000006
- Acute Abdomen. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_abdomen
- Acute Abdomen. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q424317