CanadiEm - By Alex Senger - October 27, 2020
"In this article, we will dive into the world of abdominal wall pain – specifically from a condition called Abdominal Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment Syndrome (ACNES) – a diagnosis rarely considered when seeing patients with abdominal pain in the ED...
ACNES has an absolute prevalence estimated at 1/1800 adults1 and an unknown prevalence in children. One retrospective study found that 2% of patients presenting with abdominal pain to the ED were eventually diagnosed with ACNES. Other studies show that the prevalence of ACNES or other abdominal wall pain syndromes was 10-30% after patients had a negative diagnostic workup to exclude other causes.Despite this, ACNES is poorly understood and rarely diagnosed..."
