Abdominal Pain Differential Diagnosis

Left upper quadrant pain

Right upper quadrant pain

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Gall bladder and biliary tracts

Hepatitis
Hepatic abscess
Hepatomegaly due to congestive

heart failure
5. Peptic ulcer
6. Retrocaecal appendicitis
7. Renal pain
8. Myocardial ischemia
9. Pericarditis
10.Pneumonia
11.Empyema

Right lower quadrant pain

1. Appendicitis
2. Intestinal obstruction
3. Regional enteritis
4. Diverticulitis
5. Cholecystitis
6. Perforated ulcer
7. Leaking aneurysm
8. Abdominal wall hematoma
9. Ectopic pregnancy
10.Ovarian cyst and torsion
11.Salpingitis
12.Endometriosis
13.Ureteral Calculi
14.Renal pain
15.Seminal vesiculitis
16.Psoas abscess

1. Gastritis
2. Pancreatitis
3. Splenic enlargement, rupture,

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infarction or aneurysm

Renal pain
Myocardial ischemia
Pneumonia
Empyema

Left lower quadrant pain

1. Diverticulitis
2. Intestinal obstruction
3. Appendicitis
4. Leaking aneurysm
5. Abdominal wall hematoma
6. Ectopic pregnancy
7. Ovarian cyst or torsion
8. Salpingitis
9. Endometriosis
10.Ureteral calculi
11.Renal pain
12.Seminal vesiculitis
13.Psoas abscess