​Differential Diagnosis of Right Lower Quadrant Abdominal Pain

Differential Diagnosis of Right Lower Quadrant Abdominal Pain • Vascular: leaking aortic aneurysm • Trauma • Reproductive: ectopic pregnancy, ovarian cyst, torsion of ovarian cyst, salpingitis, tubo-ovarian abscess, mittelschmerz, endometriosis, seminal


​Differential Diagnosis of Right Upper Quadrant Abdominal Pain

Differential Diagnosis of Right Upper Quadrant Abdominal Pain • Trauma • Renal: calculi, infection, inflammation, neoplasm, rupture of kidney • Pulmonary: pneumonia, pulmonary infarction, right-sided pleurisy • Pancreatic: pancreatitis, neoplasm, stone in


​Differential Diagnosis of Suprapubic Abdominal Pain

Differential Diagnosis of Suprapubic Abdominal Pain • Reproductive system: ectopic pregnancy, mittelschmerz, torsion of ovarian cyst, pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), salpingitis, endometriosis, rupture of endometrioma • Intestinal: colon obstruction o


​Differential Diagnosis of Abdominal Wall Masses

Differential Diagnosis of Abdominal Wall Masses expansile cough impulse. • Umbilical hernia : The hernia is through the umbilical scar. Those presenting at birth commonly resolve in the first years of life. • Tumor nodule of the umbilicus (secondary to in


​Differential Diagnosis of Recurrent Abortion

Differential Diagnosis of Recurrent Abortion • Uterine fibroids • Thrombocytosis • Parental chromosome abnormalities • Maternal infections (cervical Mycoplasma, Ureaplasma, Chlamydia infection) • Endometriosis • Endocrine abnormalities (luteal phase insu



​Differential Diagnosis of Brain Abscess

Differential Diagnosis of Brain Abscess • Viral encephalitis (usually resulting from herpes simplex) • Parasitic infections: toxoplasmosis, echinococcosis, cysticercosis • Other parameningeal infections: subdural empyema, epidural abscess, thrombophlebit


​Differential Diagnosis of  Breast Abscess

Differential Diagnosis of Breast Abscess • Tuberculous abscess • Sebaceous cyst with infection • Inflammatory carcinoma • Hidradenitis of breast skin • Advanced carcinoma with erythema, edema, or ulceration


​Differential Diagnosis of Liver Abscess

Differential Diagnosis of Liver Abscess • Pulmonary embolism • Perforated viscus • Pancreatitis • Mesentery ischemia • Diverticulitis • Cholecystitis • Cholangitis • Appendicitis