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Increased bowel sounds differential diagnosis
Introduction
Differentiating Increased Bowel Sounds from other Condtitions
Differentiating Increased Bowel Sounds from other Condtitions
Differential diagnosis includes: [1] [2]
- Abscess
- Acute gastroenteritis
- Adhesions (from previous surgery)
- Benign etiologies
- Carcinoid syndrome
- Colonic-pseudo obstruction
- Crohn’s disease
- Diarrhea
- Foreign body
- Gallstone ileus
- Hernias
- Hiatal hernia
- Infection
- Intussusception
- Lactase deficiency
- Malabsorption syndrome
- Mechanical bowel obstruction
- Neoplasms
- Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
- Succussion splash
- Volvulus
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]