[Acute abdomen in primary care].

The author--using his 30 years practical medical experience, from the point of view of a family doctor giving the first diagnose, analyses the problem of acute abdomen. Gives an overview of anamnesis (heteroanamnesis) and the data and their significance investigated during the physical examination of patient (inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation), and that of the usefulness for the right diagnose. The author orients the reader's attention to the fact, that the beginning of the third millennium in the world of instrumental and laboratory diagnostics, in case of certain illnesses--so in the case of acute abdomen--physical examinations have not lost a bit from their significance.