Chronic bilious vomiting in children in developing countries due to high bowel obstruction: not always malrotation or tuberculosis

Systemic causes of abdominal pain

A variety of systemic and extra-abdominal diseases can cause symptoms within the abdominal cavity. Systemic and extra-abdominal diseases may include abdominal symptoms caused by several mechanisms. This article discusses the most important and common of these causes, namely the metabolic/endocrine causes, hematologic causes, inflammatory causes, infectious causes, functional causes, and the neurogenic causes.