Abstract:Acute abdominal pain is one of the most common reasons for admission to the emergency department in the geriatric population 1 . With the increase in the elderly population, elderly patients constitute an increasing proportion of patients presenting to the emergency department due to acute abdominal pain 2 . However, this situation causes additional difficulties for emergency physicians. In an elderly patient with abdominal pain, the clinical manifestations may be very different and nonspecific 3 .However, th… Show more
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