Paediatrics

at a Glance

Lawrence Miall, Mary Rudolf, Dominic Smith

Multiple Choice: Chapter 35 Recurrent abdominal pain

Question 1. In a well child with intermittent abdominal pain for a month, that mostly occurs on school days:

(a) The pain is typically in the right iliac fossa
(b) Serious pathology can always be excluded by the history alone
(c) A trial of stopping school for a week will be useful to make the diagnosis of school-related anxiety
(d) It is likely the child actually feels pain, rather than putting it on
(e) Sexual abuse is the likely cause