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<span style="font-size:85%">'''Abbreviations:'''
'''[[RUQ]]'''= Right upper quadrant of the abdomen, '''LUQ'''= Left upper quadrant, '''LLQ'''= Left lower quadrant, '''RLQ'''= Right lower quadrant, '''LFT'''= Liver function test, SIRS= [[Systemic inflammatory response syndrome]], '''[[ERCP]]'''= [[Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography]], '''IV'''= Intravenous, '''N'''= Normal, '''AMA'''= Anti mitochondrial antibodies, '''[[LDH]]'''= [[Lactate dehydrogenase]], '''GI'''= Gastrointestinal, '''CXR'''= Chest X ray, '''IgA'''= [[Immunoglobulin A]], '''IgG'''= [[Immunoglobulin G]], '''IgM'''= [[Immunoglobulin M]], '''CT'''= [[Computed tomography]], '''[[PMN]]'''= Polymorphonuclear cells, '''[[ESR]]'''= [[Erythrocyte sedimentation rate]], '''[[CRP]]'''= [[C-reactive protein]], TS= [[Transferrin saturation]], SF= Serum [[Ferritin]], SMA= [[Superior mesenteric artery]], SMV= [[Superior mesenteric vein]], ECG= [[Electrocardiogram]]</span>

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! rowspan="3" style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Disease
| colspan="13" rowspan="1" style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |'''Clinical manifestations'''
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Diagnosis
! rowspan="3" style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Comments
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| colspan="9" rowspan="1" style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |'''Symptoms'''
! colspan="4" rowspan="1" style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" | Signs
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! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Abdominal Pain
! colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" | Fever 
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Rigors and chills
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Nausea or vomiting
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Jaundice 
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Constipation
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Diarrhea
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Weight loss
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |GI bleeding
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Hypo-
tension
! colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" | Guarding
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Rebound Tenderness
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Bowel sounds
! colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" | Lab Findings
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Imaging
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| colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" align="center" | [[Peptic Ulcer Disease|Peptic ulcer disease]]
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |Diffuse
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | ±
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | <nowiki>+</nowiki>
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | <nowiki>+</nowiki>
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* Gastric ulcer- [[melena]] and [[hematemesis]]
* Duodenal ulcer- [[melena]] and [[hematochezia]]
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | Positive if perforated
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | Positive if perforated
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | Positive if perforated
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="left" |N
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* Ascitic fluid
** [[LDH]] > serum [[LDH]]
** Glucose < 50mg/dl
** Total protein > 1g/dl 
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* Air under [[diaphragm]] in upright [[CXR]]
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* Upper GI [[endoscopy]] for diagnosis
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" align="center" |[[Gastritis|Gastritis]]
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |[[Epigastric]]
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | ±
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | <nowiki>+</nowiki>
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | Positive in chronic gastritis
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | + 
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="left" |N
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* [[H.pylori infection diagnostic tests]]
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* [[Endoscopy]]
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* [[H.pylori gastritis guideline recommendation]]
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" align="center" |[[Gastrointestinal perforation]]
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |Diffuse
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | ±
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |<nowiki>-</nowiki>
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | ±
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |−
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |−
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | ±
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="left" |Hyperactive/hypoactive
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* WBC> 10,000
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* Air under [[diaphragm]] in upright [[CXR]]
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* [[Hamman's sign]]
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| colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" align="center" |[[Diverticulitis|Acute diverticulitis]]
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |LLQ
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | ±
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |<nowiki>+</nowiki>
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |<nowiki>+</nowiki>
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | ±
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |−
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | Positive in perforated diverticulitis
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="left" |Hypoactive
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* [[Leukocytosis]]
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* CT scan  
* Ultrasound 
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* History of [[constipation]]
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" align="center" |[[Inflammatory bowel disease]]
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |Diffuse
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | ±
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | ±
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |<nowiki>+</nowiki>
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="left" |Normal or hyperactive
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* [[Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody]] ([[P-ANCA]]) in [[Ulcerative colitis]]
* [[Anti saccharomyces cerevisiae antibodies]] (ASCA) in [[Crohn's disease]]
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* [[String sign]] on [[abdominal x-ray]] in [[Crohn's disease]]
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Extra intestinal findings:
* [[Uveitis]]
* [[Arthritis]]
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" align="center" |[[Infective colitis]]
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |Diffuse
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | ±
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | Positive in fulminant colitis
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | ±
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | ±
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="left" |Hyperactive 
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* [[Stool culture]] and studies
* Shiga toxin in bloody diarrhea
* [[PCR]]
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="left" |CT scan 
* Bowel wall thickening
* Edema
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! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Disease
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Abdominal Pain
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Fever
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Rigors and chills
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Nausea or vomiting
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Jaundice
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Constipation
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Diarrhea
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Weight loss
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |GI bleeding
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Hypo-
tension
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Guarding
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Rebound Tenderness
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Bowel sounds
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Lab Findings
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Imaging
! style="background:#4479BA; color: #FFFFFF;" align="center" |Comments
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" align="center" |[[Budd-Chiari syndrome|Budd-Chiari syndrome]]
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |[[RUQ]]
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | ±
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | ±
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | Positive in liver failure leading to varices
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="left" |N
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*Elevated [[Aspartate aminotransferase|serum aspartate aminotransferase]] and [[alanine aminotransferase]] levels may be more than five times the upper limit of the normal range.
*Elevated serum [[alkaline phosphatase]] and [[Bilirubin|bilirubin levels]], decreased [[Albumin|serum albumin level]].
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="left" |Findings on [[CT scan]] suggestive of Budd-Chiari syndrome include:
*Early enhancement of the [[caudate lobe]] and [[central liver]] around the [[Inferior vena cavae|inferior vena cava]]
*Delayed enhancement of the peripheral [[liver]] with accompanying central low density (flip-flop appearance)
*Peripheral zones of the [[liver]] show reversed [[portal]] [[venous]] [[blood flow]]
*In the [[chronic]] phase, there is [[caudate lobe]] enlargement and [[atrophy]] of the [[Liver|peripheral liver]] in affected areas
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="left" |[[Ascitic tap|Ascitic fluid examination]] shows:
*[[Total protein]] more than 2.5 g per deciliter
*[[White blood cells]] are usually less than 500/μL.
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" align="center" |[[Mesenteric ischemia]]
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |Periumbilical
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |Positive if bowel becomes gangrenous
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |<nowiki>+</nowiki>
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |<nowiki>+</nowiki>
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | Positive if bowel becomes gangrenous
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | Positive if bowel becomes gangrenous
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="left" |Hyperactive to absent
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* [[Leukocytosis]] and [[lactic acidosis]]
* [[Amylase]] levels
* [[D-dimer]]
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="left" |CT angiography
* SMA or SMV thrombosis
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* Also known as abdominal angina  that worsens with eating
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" align="center" |[[Ischemic colitis|Acute ischemic colitis]]
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | Diffuse
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | ±
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |<nowiki>+</nowiki>
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |<nowiki>+</nowiki>
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |<nowiki>+</nowiki>
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |<nowiki>+</nowiki>
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="left" |Hyperactive then absent
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* [[Leukocytosis]]
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="left" |[[Abdominal x-ray]]
* Distension and pneumatosis
CT scan
* Double halo appearance, thumbprinting 
* Thickening of bowel
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* May lead to shock
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" align="center" |[[Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm]]
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | Diffuse
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | ±
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |<nowiki>+</nowiki>
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" |<nowiki>+</nowiki>
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | + 
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="left" |N
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* [[Fibrinogen]]
* [[D-dimer]]
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* Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST) 
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* Unstable hemodynamics
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" align="center" |Intra-abdominal or [[retroperitoneal hemorrhage]]
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | Diffuse
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | ±
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | ±
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | +
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="center" | −
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" align="left" |N
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* ↓ Hb
* ↓ Hct
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* CT scan
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* History of [[trauma]]
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