Includes articles on the following topics: approach to acute abdominal pain; evaluation of abdominal pain in older adults; evaluation of abdominal pain in the pediatric population; imaging and laboratory testing in acute abdominal pain; esophageal and gastric emergencies; and anorectal emergencies and foreign bodies in the gastrointestinal tract.

This issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Angela Mills and Anthony Dean, will include articles on the following topics: Approach to acute abdominal pain;Evaluation of abdominal pain in older adults; Evaluation of abdominal pain in the pediatric population; Imaging and laboratory testing in acute abdominal pain;Esophageal and gastric emergencies; and Anorectal emergencies and foreign bodies in the gastrointestinal tract.