Right upper quadrant pain varies in intensity and frequency. You may experience pain as dull, achy, sharp, or stabbing. The pain may also come and go or be steady and persistent.

Right upper quadrant pain can be caused by various conditions, including gallstones, kidney stones, and hepatitis. Your abdomen is divided into four quarters or quadrants. Imagine a vertical line ...

Pain in the right upper quadrant (RUQ) of the ribs may indicate a health problem affecting an organ in that area. These include the pancreas, right kidney, gallbladder, liver, and intestines.

A 32-year-old woman with a recent dry cough presents to the emergency department (ED). The patient reports a 6-day history of right upper quadrant pain that is worse when she coughs, moves, laughs ...

A periampullary duodenal diverticulum compresses the distal bile duct, leading to obstructive jaundice in a patient without ...

Pain that begins suddenly near the belly button and moves toward the lower right quadrant Pain that worsens if you move your abdomen, such as by walking or coughing Nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite ...

Left upper quadrant pain typically suggests pathology in the stomach, pancreas, spleen, or splenic flexure of the colon. On occasion, cardiac or pulmonary pathology can cause isolated LUQ pain.

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A woman in her 40s with a history of a subarachnoid haemorrhage complicated by ischaemic infarcts presented with 1 week of ...

Even mild pressure over McBurney’s point elicited significant pain and guarding. I did not have tenderness anywhere else in my abdomen, and at that time I was pretty confident I had appendicitis.