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Left Lower Quadrant Abdominal Pain

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Left Lower Quadrant Abdominal Pain, LLQ Abdominal Pain, LLQ Pain

  • See also
  1. Acute Pelvic Pain Causes
  2. Acute Abdominal Pain Causes
  3. Acute Abdominal Pain
  4. Pediatric Abdominal Pain Causes
  5. Abdominal Pain in Older Adults
  • Causes
  • Gastrointestinal
  1. Appendicitis
  2. Intestinal Obstruction
  3. Constipation
  4. Diverticulitis
  5. Infectious Colitis
  6. Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  7. Epiploic appendagitis
  • Causes
  • Vascular
  1. Leaking aneurysm
  2. Mesenteric Ischemia
  • Causes
  • Genitourinary
  1. See Acute Pelvic Pain Causes
  2. Ruptured Ovarian Cyst
  3. Ovarian Torsion
  4. Ectopic Pregnancy
  5. Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
  6. Ureteral Calculus (Nephrolithiasis)
  7. Renal pain
  8. Seminal vesiculitis
  • Causes
  • Miscellaneous
  1. Psoas abscess
  2. Abdominal wall Hematoma
  • Evaluation
  1. Diverticulitis suspected (e.g. fever, Diverticuli history, RLQ tenderness, Rectal Bleeding)
    1. Empiric treatment for Diverticulitis
    2. Consider CT Abdomen with oral and IV contrast
  2. Non-Diverticular cause suspected
    1. Evaluate for non-gastrointestinal cause as listed above
  • Imaging
  • Preferred
  1. Abdominal CT with oral water and IV contrast
  • References
  1. Yew (2023) Am Fam Physician 107(6): 585-96 [PubMed]