Diagnosaurus
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
See related DDx
Last updated: February 24, 2015
Citation
Zeiger, Roni F.. "Abdominal Pain, Right Upper Quadrant." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2015. Emergency Central, emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114441/all/Abdominal_pain__right_upper_quadrant.
Zeiger RFR. Abdominal pain, right upper quadrant. Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2015. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114441/all/Abdominal_pain__right_upper_quadrant. Accessed December 19, 2024.
Zeiger, R. F. (2015). Abdominal pain, right upper quadrant. In Diagnosaurus (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114441/all/Abdominal_pain__right_upper_quadrant
Zeiger RFR. Abdominal Pain, Right Upper Quadrant [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2015. [cited 2024 December 19]. Available from: https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114441/all/Abdominal_pain__right_upper_quadrant.
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