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Flank pain
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Contents
Background
Clinical Features
Differential Diagnosis
Flank Pain
- Vascular
- AAA
- Renal artery embolism
- Renal vein thrombosis
- Aortic dissection
- Mesenteric ischemia
- Renal
- Pyelonephritis
- Papillary necrosis
- Renal cell carcinoma
- Renal infarct
- Renal hemorrhage
- Ureter
- Blood clot
- Stricture
- Tumor (primary or metastatic)
- Bladder
- Tumor
- Varicose vein
- Cystitis
- GI
- Biliary colic
- Pancreatitis
- Perforated peptic ulcer
- Appendicitis - pyelonephritis is common misdiagnosis in pregnancy; appendix may be pushed to RUQ
- Inguinal Hernia
- Diverticulitis
- Cancer
- Bowel obstruction
- Gynecologic
- Ectopic Pregnancy
- PID/TOA
- Ovarian cyst
- Ovarian torsion
- Endometriosis
- GU
- Other
- Shingles
- Retroperitoneal hematoma/abscess/tumor
- Epidural abscess
- Epidural hematoma
