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

• Abdominal pain