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Left Lower Quadrant Abdominal Pain
Aka: Left Lower Quadrant Abdominal Pain, LLQ Abdominal Pain, LLQ Pain
- See also
- Acute Pelvic Pain Causes
- Causes: Gastrointestinal
- Appendicitis
- Intestinal Obstruction
- Constipation
- Diverticulitis
- Infectious colitis
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Causes: Vascular
- Leaking aneurysm
- Mesenteric Ischemia
- Causes: Genitourinary
- See Acute Pelvic Pain Causes
- Ovarian Cyst or torsion
- Ureteral Calculus (Nephrolithiasis)
- Renal pain
- Seminal vesiculitis
- Causes: Miscellaneous
- Psoas abscess
- Abdominal wall hematoma
- Evaluation
- Diverticulitis suspected (e.g. fever, Diverticuli history, RLQ tenderness, rectal bleeding)
- Empiric treatment for Diverticulitis
- Consider CT Abdomen with oral and IV contrast
- Non-Diverticular cause suspected
- Evaluate for non-gastrointestinal cause as listed above
- Imaging: Preferred
- Abdominal CT with Oral Contrast