Overview
Abdominal pain is discomfort felt between the chest and the pelvis, a common clinical presentation arising from a wide range of intra-abdominal and systemic causes. It may be visceral, originating in the organs and poorly localized, parietal, arising from the peritoneum and sharply localized, or referred from distant structures, and its character, location, and time course guide diagnosis. Causes span gastrointestinal disorders such as gastroenteritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and bowel obstruction, hepatobiliary and pancreatic disease, urological and gynaecological conditions, and acute surgical emergencies including appendicitis and visceral rupture; serious pathology must be distinguished from benign and functional causes. The peer-reviewed work assembled here engages these themes within Spleen And Liver Research: hepatic tuberculosis presenting as a liver mass, hepatic cysts in polycystic disease, retrospective studies of liver disease, intestinal malrotation and small-bowel volvulus, superior mesenteric artery syndrome misdiagnosed as psychiatric disease, spontaneous urinary-bladder rupture, and groove pancreatitis. Across these studies abdominal pain appears as a manifestation of hepatobiliary, pancreatic, intestinal, and urological disease, with attention to the diagnostic challenge of identifying its cause. The collection situates abdominal pain as a symptom demanding systematic evaluation, frequently signalling hepatic, gastrointestinal, or surgical pathology, and central to the clinical assessment of liver and abdominal disease.
Research published in this journal
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
Hepatic Cysts as a Manifestation of Polycystic Kidney Disease (Polycystic Liver Report of 2 Mother-Son Cases)
Liver Disease: A Retrospective Hospital Based Study in Addis Ababa-Ethiopia
Implementation of an Elemental Diet in Five Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder Presenting with Gastrointestinal Disease: A Brief Report
Intestinal Malrotation in a Suspected Celiac Disease Patient: A Case Report
Organic or Psychiatric Disease? A Misdiagnosed Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome
Volvulus of the Small Bowel Due to Malrotation During Pregnancy: A Case-Report
Sudden Death Due to Spontaneous Rupture of the Urinary Bladder following Acute Alcohol Inebriation- A Case report and Review of Literature
Self-Medication among Pregnant Women in Effutu and Agona West Municipalities of the Central Region of Ghana
The Effect of Food Intakes on Musculoskeletal Pains
Childhood Somatic Complaints: Relationships with Child Emotional Functioning and Parental Factors
A Challenging Case of Groove Pancreatitis
How this research is being cited
The 12 articles above have been cited 38 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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2026 · Developmental Review
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2026 · BioMed Research International
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2024 · Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
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Nanhua Cheng et al. · 2024 · Children and youth services review
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2024 · Children and Youth Services Review
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2024 · Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
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2024 · Research Square (Research Square)
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