Question
Why do girls often experience abdominal pain?
Answer
Acute infections: bacterial, viral, rickettsial infections such as acute cellulitis, upper respiratory infections, infectious mononucleosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, etc.; chronic infections: bacterial, fungal, parasitic, chlamydial, mycoplasmal diseases, filarial disease, lymphogranuloma venereum, syphilis, AIDS, etc.; tumors: malignant lymphoma (e.g., Hodgkin’s disease and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma), leukemia (acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute non-lymphoblastic leukemia, chronic lymphoblastic leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia, plasma cell leukemia, etc.).