Recurrent abdominal pain is a common childhood complaint, occurring in up to 40 percent of children and accounting for at least five percent of all pediatric office visits. RAP commonly is classified ...

Doctors palpate the abdomen to check certain organs and feel for atypical masses or tenderness. Palpating the abdomen is often part of an abdominal physical examination. A doctor may perform a ...

Hypnotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and probiotics are effective in the treatment of pediatric abdominal pain-related functional gastrointestinal disorders. Data are inconclusive, however, ...

Your health care provider should consider the age of the child, history of the pain, associated symptoms, past medical history, family history, physical findings, and potential lab findings in an ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An 8-year-old boy was in the hospital for the management of acute abdominal pain when on hospital day four or ...

After an uneventful pregnancy and delivery, a healthy male infant was born at 39 weeks' gestation and circumcised by his family physician on the sixth day of life. In the subsequent 36 hours, the boy ...

Dr. Mallory C. Mandel (Pediatrics): A 16-year-old girl was admitted to this hospital because of abdominal pain. The patient had been in her usual state of health until 4 weeks before the current ...

An infant with persistent abdominal distension is found to have a rare ureteric anomaly causing colonic compression, ...

The Pediatric Abdominal Pain Research Program is led by Dr. Robert Shulman, a practicing pediatric gastroenterologist at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. Our team consists of ...