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Abstract
A severe intermittent and spasmodic pain in the lower back radiating to the groin, scrotum, and labia which is most commonly caused by a kidney stone (RENAL CALCULUS) passing through the URETER or by other urinary track blockage. It is often associated with nausea, vomiting, fever, restlessness, dull pain, frequent urination, and HEMATURIA.
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- Acute Renal Colic
- Ureteral Colic
- Acute Renal Colics
- Colic, Acute Renal
- Colic, Renal
- Colic, Ureteral
- Colics, Acute Renal
- Colics, Renal
- Colics, Ureteral
- Renal Colic, Acute
- Renal Colics
- Renal Colics, Acute
- Ureteral Colics
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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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History Note
2010
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- Colic (1951-2009)
- Urinary Calculi (1961-2009)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Renal Colic. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D056844. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D056844
- Renal Colic. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renal_colic
- Renal Colic. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q609202