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Acute abdominal pain

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

How do you define acute abdominal pain?
Acute abdominal pain
Abdominal pain is the symptom that appears most frequently in clinical gastrointestinal disease. The causes are as diverse as triggers that make diagnosis difficult among them highlight the following:

  • Mechanical type
  • Inflammatory
  • Infectious
  • Failure of vascular supply by
  • Of tumoral

There are three types of abdominal pain

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Endometrial hyperplasia and cancer of the uterus

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

cancerEndometrial hyperplasia is an overgrowth of the mucous layer lining inside the uterus (called endometrium), usually secondary to hyperstimulation by estrogen (a sex hormone found in the female body).
Estrogen stimulates the growth of endometrial cells, a process that is subsequently reversed by the action of progesterone.

Hyperplasia may be due to different causes (exogenous estrogen administration, excessive ovarian production of them …) and can be of different degrees, being the most widely accepted classification, the divide in:

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