Pediatria pre prax 3/2006

CHRONIC ABDOMINAL PAIN IN CHILDREN

Chronic abdominal pain in children are one of the most common symptoms investigated in gastroenterology service. Etiology of that complaints are different and also different in a specific children´s age. The inflammation bowel disease and malabsorption syndrome includes all states in which there appear disorders in the digestion and absorption of basic nutrients and consequently disease due to a deficienty of those substance. The separated issue are foreign bodies of the digestive tract most common in children in toddler´s and preschool age. The autor overwiev that problems including the short case report of chronic abdominal pain.

Keywords: chronic abdominal pain, children, adolescent, diagnosis, radionuclid methods of treatment.