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Cramps Abdomen
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Cramps Abdomen
Pain in the upper or middle stomach area. May not actually be coming from the stomach although it feels that way as the pain may be coming from various other organs.
Symptom classification
Body areaStomach
Conditions linked to this sign/symptom
24- Acute Mesenteric Ischemia
- Amebiasis
- Barotrauma
- Clonorchiasis
- Constipation
- E coli Infection
- E Coli O157 H7 Infection
- Ectopic Pregnancy
- Entamoeba Histolytica
- Gastroenteritis
- Hypochondriasis
- Ileus
- Intestinal Malrotation
- Intussusception
- Marburg Infections
- Meckels Diverticulum
- Noncholera Vibrio Infections
- Opioid Dependency
- Polycystic Kidney Disease
- Premenstrual Syndrome
- Pseudomembranous Colitis
- Renal Pelvis Cancer
- Shigellosis
- Short Bowel Syndrome