Differential Diagnosis
Diffuse abdominal pain:
- Gasteroentritis
- Intestinal obstruction
- Peritonitis
- IBD
- Lead poisoning
- Uremia
- Drug overdose
- DKA
- Sickle cell crisis
- PID
- UTI
Epigastric pain:
- Peptic Ulcer Disease
- Gastric ulcer
- Duodenitis
- Cholecystitis
- Hepatitis
- Angina
- Myocardial ischemia
- Anxiety
- Gastroenteritis
Periumbilical pain:
- Small intestine obstruction
- Intestinal gangrene
- Appendicitis
- Mesenteric ischemia or thrombosis
- Pancreatitis
- Uremia
- DKA
- Anxiety
- Irritable bowel syndrome
Suprapubic pain:
- Colon obstruction
- Colon gangrene
- Diverticulitis
- Appendicitis
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Mittelschmerz
- Ovarian torsion
- PID
- Slampinitis
- Bladder infection
- Bladder cancer
Right Upper Quadrant:
- Biliary stone
- Biliary inflammation
- Gall stone
- Hepatitis
- Hepatic abscess
- PUD
- Pyloric stenosis
- Alcoholic gastritis
- Hiatal hernia
- Renal calculi
- Kidney infection or inflammation
- Pulmonary infection
- Pneuomonia
- Myocardial ischemia
Right Lower Quadrant:
- Acute appendicitis
- Regional enteritis
- Incarcerated hernia
- Diverticulitis
- Intestinal Obstruction
- Perforated ulcer
- Perforated cecum
- Meckel’s diverticulitis
Left Upper Quadrant:
- Peptic Ulcer Disease
- Gastritis
- Pyloric stenosis
- Hiatal hernia
- Myocardial ischemia
- Angina
- Pancreatitis
- Pancreatic cancer
- Splenomegaly
- Splenic rupture
- Splenic abscess
- Renal stone
- Pyelonephritis
- Ruptured aortic aneurysm
- Herpes zoster
- Perforated colon
- Diverticulitis
Left Lower Quadrant:
- Intestinal obstruction
- Perforated ulcer
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Perforated descending colon
- Inguinal hernia
- Adhesions
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Ovarian cyst
- Ovarian torsion
- Mittelschmertz
- Endometriosis
- Protatitis
- Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
- Psoas abscess
- Kidney stone
- Kidney infection