Abdominal pain, also known as a stomach ache, is a symptom associated with both non-serious and serious medical issues. Because the abdomen contains most of the body's vital organs, abdominal pain can be an indicator of a wide variety of diseases, making a careful examination and a structured differential diagnosis an important part of evaluating it.
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Body SystemSourced to the subject's own account ICD-10 ChapterXVIII: Symptoms, Signs and Abnormal Clinical and Laboratory Findings, Not Elsewhere Classified 2 Sources
1. Abdominal pain (Wikipedia)
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Gastroenterology, general surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, urology, emergency medicine
2. Wikipedia: ICD-10
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Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified
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