Abdominal pain, right upper quadrant
DDx
Don’t miss
- Right lower lobe pneumonia
- Cholangitis
- Intestinal ischemia
- Pyelonephritis
DDX
- Cholelithiasis
- Cholecystitis
- Hepatitis, eg, viral, alcoholic, toxic
- Cholangitis or choledocholithiasis
- Appendicitis (retrocecal)
- Peptic ulcer disease (duodenal)
- Pancreatitis
- Functional or nonulcer dyspepsia
- Liver abscess
- Liver, pancreatic, or biliary tract cancer
- Ischemic hepatopathy (shock liver)
- Hepatic vein obstruction (Budd-Chiari syndrome)
- Right lower lobe pneumonia
- Pyelonephritis
- Urinary calculi
- Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome (with pelvic inflammatory disease)
- Liver cell adenoma
- Herpes zoster
- Trauma or musculoskeletal pain
- Herniated disk
- Abdominal abscess
- Intestinal ischemia
- Physical or sexual abuse
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