Symptoms
- Abdominal Pain:
- Epigastric
- Radiates to back
- Severe in nature
- Alleviated by leaning forward
- Nausea (1)
Parenchymal
- Systemic features: (1)
- Tachycardia
- Pyrexia
- Vomiting (1)
- Abdominal distension (1)
- Peritonism (1)
- Signs of retroperitoneal haemorrhage (1) (tracks along tissue planes)
- Grey–Turner’s sign: bruising of the flanks
- Cullen’s sign: peri-umbilical bruising
- Fox’s sign: bruising of the inguinal ligament