Right Upper Quadrant Pain
Liver:
 - Infectious: Acute ...
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Right Upper Quadrant Pain

Liver:

 - Infectious: Acute viral hepatitis, Liver abscess

 - Non-infectious: hepatitis (Alcohol, Medications), Hepatic congestion (e.g. heart failure), Budd-Chiari syndrome

Biliary:

 - Infectious: Acute cholecystitis, Acute cholangitis (a.k.a. "ascending cholangitis")

 - Non-infectious: Gallstones (a.k.a. "biliary colic"), Choledocholithiasis

Other: RLL Pneumonia, Subdiaphragmatic abscess



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Dr. Gerald Diaz
@GeraldMD
Board Certified Internal Medicine Hospitalist, GrepMed Editor in Chief πŸ‡΅πŸ‡­ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ - Sign up for an account to like, bookmark and upload images to contribute to our community platform. Follow us on IG:  https://www.instagram.com/grepmed/ | Twitter: https://twitter.com/grepmeded/
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