​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Cholecystitis

​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Cholecystitis
• Biliary: neoplasm, stricture
• Cardiac: myocardial ischemia (particularly involving the inferior wall), pericarditis
• Cutaneous: herpes zoster
• Dissecting aneurysm
• Fitz-Hugh–Curtis syndrome (perihepatitis)
• Gastric: peptic ulcer disease (PUD), neoplasm, alcoholic gastritis, hiatal hernia
• Hepatic: hepatitis, abscess, hepatic congestion, neoplasm, trauma
• Intestinal: retrocecal appendicitis, intestinal obstruction, high fecal impaction
• Nerve root irritation caused by osteoarthritis of the spine
• Pancreatic: pancreatitis, neoplasm, stone in the pancreatic duct or ampulla
• Pulmonary: pneumonia, pulmonary infarction, right-sided pleurisy
• Renal: calculi, infection, inflammation, neoplasm, ruptured kidney
• Subphrenic abscess
• Trauma