Differential Diagnosis of Epigastric Abdominal Pain

​Differential Diagnosis of Epigastric Abdominal Pain
•  gastric ulcer
• Vascular: dissecting aneurysm, mesenteric ischemia
• Subphrenic abscess
• Pulmonary: pneumonia, pleurisy, pneumothorax
• Pancreatic: pancreatitis
• Other: gastroenteritis, anxiety
• Intestinal: high small bowel obstruction, early appendicitis
• Hepatic: hepatitis
• Gastric: peptic ulcer disease (PUD), gastric outlet obstruction,
• Duodenal: PUD, duodenitis
• Cardiac: angina, myocardial infarction (MI), pericarditis
• Biliary: cholecystitis, cholangitis