April 26, 2012 — That anxious hospital emergency department (ED) visit to learn whether a child's belly ache is a sign of appendicitis increasingly involves computed tomography (CT) to render a ...

February 19, 2010 — A systematic review found no link between pediatric abdominal pain and Helicobacter pylori infection, as reported online in the February 15 issue of Pediatrics. "Recurrent ...

Recurrent abdominal pain is a common childhood complaint, occurring in up to 40 percent of children and accounting for at least five percent of all pediatric office visits. RAP commonly is classified ...

Worried single mother consoling her little girl who is having stomachache at home. Experts discuss the clinical features of, treatments for, and need for further research on the topic of abdominal ...

Each month, The Clinical Advisor makes one new clinical feature available ahead of print. Don’t forget to take the poll. The results will be published in the next month’s issue. Acute abdominal pain ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Functional abdominal pain disorders cause significant stress in children, driving high care use. New guidelines ...

A study by a pediatric surgical oncologist shows that an adult surgery adapted for use in young patients increased the survival of children with rare tumors in the abdomen. A study by a pediatric ...

The review included children aged 5-21 years with functional abdominal pain treated with SSRI or TCA. Pediatric patients with functional abdominal pain showed a significantly greater response to ...