Flank pain, colic

Violent, cramping pain.
Under flank pain and cramping occurring wavy recurring severe pain are understood. Vomiting than knee-jerk reaction to the pain the victims and often the natural movement of the intestines is reduced. Often this pain is referred to as colic or colicky pain.


Frequent cause of stones, which can be located at different sites.
Depending on where the flank pain is specific, it can have various causes. Stones are often the cause of the flank pain. They can occur as renal pelvic stones or ureter stones. The pain occurs mainly in the kidneys, so common are kidney stones in the calyx or renal pelvis in the cause. If the stones in the middle or upper section of the ureter, the flank pain occurs in large amounts in the back, middle or lower abdomen. Pain caused by urethral stones may be felt in the area of ​​the bladder, testes, or labia. Then the stones but most are in the lower portions of the ureter.


Strictures in the urinary tract also resolve from colic.
Even stenosis (narrowing) in the ureter or renal pelvis may be accompanied by flank pain. Through the stenosis, the urine accumulates above the narrow confines of what triggers the flank pain. Such congestive effects may be due to different causes, such as by a kidney tumor or dead tissue, clotted blood through at Coagulation disorders due to injury or infarction of the renal arteries. Even with a floating kidney may flank pain, mainly in the standing occur.


Other possibilities:
Often colicky pain caused by diseases that are not in the kidney and the urogenital system. These include bowel diseases, such as a bowel obstruction, acute inflammation of the intestine, pancreas, gall bladder, etc. by intestinal ulcers, inflammation of the nerves. In women still come to various gynecological causes, such as ovarian cysts or ectopic pregnancies. These possibilities, the physician said differential diagnoses must be excluded in the diagnosis.