Acute abdomen in adults: a two year experience in mekelle, ethiopia.

CONCLUSION: The present study has depicted that acute abdomen commonly occurred in the 2nd to 3rd decades of life, majority caused by acute appendicitis and males were predominantly affected than females. Small bowel obstruction, sigmoid volvulus, PPUD and incarcerated hernias were other observed causes of acute abdomen. PMID: 26591288 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Ethiopian Medical Journal - Category: African Health Tags: Ethiop Med J Source Type: research