Right upper quadrant abdominal pain resident survival guide
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Rim Halaby, M.D. [2], Amr Marawan, M.D. [3]
Right upper quadrant abdominal pain
Causes
- Colon pain (below the area of liver - bowel obstruction, functional disorders, gas accumulation, spasm, inflammation, colon cancer)
- Gallbladder and biliary tract (cholecystitis, cholangitis, cholelithiasis, tumours or roundworms)
- Hepatitis (viral, toxic and drug-induced, alcoholic, autoimmune, fatty liver, and metabolic disorders as hemosiderosis or wilson disease)
- Liver cancer
- Liver abscess (pyogenic or ameobic liver abscess)