Differential diagnosis of right upper quadrant pain besides acute cholecystitis

What is the differential diagnosis of right upper quadrant pain besides acute cholecystitis?

  • Liver: severe hepatitis with swelling and stretching of the liver capsule, liver metastasis, Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome, congestive hepatopathy (hepatic vein thrombosis—Budd-Chiari syndrome), hepatoma or liver adenoma with infarction or internal bleeding
  • Pancreas: pancreatitis, pseudocyst
  • GI tract: peptic ulcer disease with or without perforation, acute appendicitis (retrocecal)
  • Kidney: pyelonephritis, nephrolithiasis
  • Lung: pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, pleurisy
  • Heart: myocardial infarction, pericarditis
  • Preeruptive varicella zoster
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