Male With Left Lower Quadrant Pain

Left Lower Quadrant Pain — Suspected Diverticulitis

Diagnosis of appendicitis with left lower quadrant pain.

Abdominal pain is one of the most common chief complaints of patients presenting to the emergency department and, among the diagnoses of abdominal pain, appendicitis is the most common surgical disorder. Traditionally, the diagnosis of appendicitis is based on well-established clinical criteria combined with physician experience. However, appendicitis presenting with rare and misleading left lo...

an atypical presentation of acute appendicitis: a 77 years old man with left lower quadrant pain

with an occurrence of 7%, appendicitis is one of the most common abdominal emergencies requiring surgery. since the variation in positions and length of the appendix may produce varying symptoms and signs which mimic other diseases, having knowledge of the variations in the position of the appendix is of significant importance. here, we present a 77-year-old man with acute appendicitis presenti...

Left Upper Quadrant Abdominal Pain

We present a case of acute appendicitis from mobile cecum presenting with left upper quadrant abdominal pain.

Left lower-quadrant pain: guidelines from the American College of Radiology appropriateness criteria.

The differential diagnosis of left lower-quadrant pain includes gastrointestinal, gynecologic, and renal/ureteric pathology. Imaging is helpful in evaluating left lower-quadrant pain, and is generally guided by the clinical presentation. Acute sigmoid diverticulitis should be suspected when the clinical triad of left lower-quadrant pain, fever, and leukocytosis is present. The severity of disea...