​Differential Diagnosis of Left Upper Quadrant Abdominal Pain

​Differential Diagnosis of Left Upper Quadrant Abdominal Pain
•hiatal hernia
• Vascular: ruptured aortic aneurysm
• Trauma
• Splenic: splenomegaly, ruptured spleen, splenic abscess, splenic infarction 
• Renal: calculi, pyelonephritis, neoplasm
• Pulmonary: pneumonia, empyema, pulmonary infarction
• Pancreatic: pancreatitis, neoplasm, stone in pancreatic duct or ampulla 
• Intestinal: high fecal impaction, perforated colon, diverticulitis
• Gastric: peptic ulcer disease (PUD), gastritis, pyloric stenosis,
• Cutaneous: herpes zoster
• Cardiac: myocardial infarction (MI), angina pectoris