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​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Acute Abdominal Colic 
• Acute gastroenteritis
• Food poisoning
• Nonspecific causes, anxiety disorder
• Constipation
• Gastric outlet obstruction
• Chronic peptic ulceration
• Gastric cancer
SMALL BOWEL OBSTRUCTION
Adhesions
• Postsurgical
• Inflammatory (e.g., diverticular)
• Radiation
• Meckel’s diverticulum
• Metastatic
Stricture
• Ischemic
• Radiation
• Inflammatory (e.g., Crohn’s disease)
Volvulus
Intussusception
• Tumor (e.g., Peutz-Jeghers syndrome)
Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome
Intraluminal Bolus
• Gallstone
• Bezoar
Hernia
• Abdominal wall
• Internal
Neoplasm
• Benign (e.g., leiomyoma)
• Malignant (e.g., carcinoid tumor, adenocarcinoma)
• Large bowel obstruction
• Colon cancer
• Diverticular disease
• Volvulus
• Uterine
• Missed abortion
• Parturition
• Period pain
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