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Right upper quadrant abdominal pain not due to gallstones

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Patients with typical biliary colic, ie, episodic pain in the right upper abdominal quadrant with radiation to the right shoulder or right subscapular region, commonly have gallbladder stones. When a good-quality transabdominal ultrasonography fails to find gallstones, the clinical diagnosis remains uncertain, but a large portion of these patients will be found to have subtle gallbladder disease (acalculous or microcalculous) or other pancreatobiliary disease.

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  1. Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Indiana University Medical Center, 550 N. University Blvd., Suite 2300, 46202, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    Glen A. Lehman MD

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Lehman, G.A. Right upper quadrant abdominal pain not due to gallstones. Curr Treat Options Gastro 3, 141–146 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11938-000-0007-x

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