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Abdomen, Acute

"Abdomen, Acute" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A clinical syndrome with acute abdominal pain that is severe, localized, and rapid in onset. Acute abdomen may be caused by a variety of disorders, injuries, or diseases.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Abdomen, Acute" by people in this website by year, and whether "Abdomen, Acute" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 13 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2015
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