Abdominal pain is considered the most common complaints of patients admitted to emergency departments amounting to 5-10% of emergency department visits. Acute abdominal pain can represent a spectrum of conditions from benign and self-limited disease to surgical emergencies. Although most abdominal pain is benign, as many as 10% of patients in the emergency department setting and a lesser percentage in the outpatient setting have a severe or life-threatening cause or require surgery. Therefore, a thorough and logical approach to the diagnosis of abdominal pain is necessary