Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Abdominal Pain

Abdominal pain is a symptom arising from the abdominal cavity that ranges from mild discomfort to severe, disabling pain and serves as a common presenting complaint across gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, pancreatic, urological and gynaecological disease. It is classified by mechanism into visceral pain from distens…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 30× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Abdominal pain is a symptom arising from the abdominal cavity that ranges from mild discomfort to severe, disabling pain and serves as a common presenting complaint across gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, pancreatic, urological and gynaecological disease. It is classified by mechanism into visceral pain from distension or ischaemia of hollow and solid organs, parietal pain from peritoneal irritation, and referred pain perceived at sites distant from the affected viscus, and is characterised clinically by location, onset, quality, radiation and associated features such as nausea, vomiting or altered bowel habit. Diagnostic evaluation integrates history, examination, laboratory testing and imaging to distinguish benign functional causes from surgical emergencies and serious organ pathology, with the pancreas, biliary tract, intestine and adjacent structures among the key sources of acute and chronic presentations. Research grouped under this term reflects diverse aetiologies and presentations: groove pancreatitis, hepatic and polycystic-liver cysts, gastrointestinal disease in autism spectrum disorder, intestinal malrotation and small-bowel volvulus, superior mesenteric artery syndrome, spontaneous bladder rupture, hepatic tuberculosis, and a retained surgical sponge presenting with transmural migration. The peer-reviewed literature in this area spans the differential diagnosis, imaging and management of abdominal pain across gastrointestinal, pancreatic, hepatobiliary and surgical conditions.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 30 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Pancreas.

Journal editorial board
Giuseppe Maulucci · Italy Carlo Molino · Italy Cosimo Sperti · Italy

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