Morphology of abdominal pain: the inside story; investigation of abdominal pain and its correlation with endoscopy and H. pylori status

Abstract

Pain abdomen is one of the commonest symptoms that brings a patient to a clinician’s OPD. Upper abdomen pain is, in most of instances due to dyspepsia, when it is associated with certain other features commonly ascribed to indigestion, Gastritis the feeling of burning sensation colloquially described by patient as acidity, a simple epigastric pain which may or may not be associated with any other symptoms, or a simple generalized pain all 0ver upper abdomen, and may have its origin in a gastric, gastroduodenal, or gall bladder pathology.