Extraperitoneal causes of acute abdominal pain
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Extraperitoneal Causes of Abdominal Pain
Acute Abdominal Pain
Cardiac
Endocrine
- Acute adrenal insufficiency (Addisonian crisis)
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Hyperparathyroidism (hypercalcemia)
- Hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism
Factitious
- Malingering
- Munchausen syndrome
Genitourinary
- Acute cystitis
- Dysmenorrhea
- Nephrolithiasis
- Orchitis/Epididymitis
- Perinephric abscess
- Prostatitis
- Pyelonephritis
- Renal infarct
- Seminal vesiculitis
- Testicular torsion
- Threatened abortion
- Ureteral obstruction (urolithiasis, tumor)
Hematologic
- Acute hemolytic states
- Acute leukemia
- Coagulopathies
- Other dyscrasias
- Pernicious anemia
Infectious
- Bacterial
- Parasitic (malaria)
- Rickettsial (Rocky Mountain spotted fever)
- Viral (measles, mumps, infectious mononucleosis)
Inflammatory
- Dermatomyositis
- Henoch-Schönlein purpura
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Scleroderma
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
Metabolic
- Acute intermittent porphyria
- Familial Mediterranean fever
- Hemochromatosis
- Hereditary angioneurotic edema
- Hypolipoproteinemia
- Uremia
Musculoskeletal
- Arthritis/diskitis of thoracolumbar spine
- Rectus sheath hematoma
Neurogenic
- Abdominal epilepsy
- Abdominal migraine
- Herpes zoster
- Multiple sclerosis
- Nerve root compression
- Osteomyelitis of the spine
- Spinal cord tumors
- Tabes dorsalis
Psychogenic
- Hypochondriasis
- Somatization disorders
Pulmonary
Retroperitoneal
- Psoas abscess
- Retroperitoneal hemorrhage (spontaneous adrenal hemorrhage)
Toxins
- Animal venom
- Bacterial toxins (tetanus, staphylococcus)
- Drugs
- Heavy metals (lead, arsenic, mercury)
- Insect venom (black widow spider)
- Narcotics withdrawal
- Poisonous mushrooms