Background: Recent literature supports the use of CT for all patients with right lower quadrant pain to improve diagnostic accuracy and reduce hospital cost. Our current practice at a large ...

Right side abdominal pain can be vague, and the specifics will help you find the right diagnosis, says Mia Finkelston, MD, a ...

Legend: Site = site of the pain; WBC = white blood cell count prior to surgery; EA = Epiploic appendagitis; RLQ = right lower quadrant; LLQ = left lower quadrant; NPF = no pathological finding ...

and their presentation often can help with a diagnosis of the precise cause (lower back pain affecting the coccyx, for example). Treatment can help most people who experience back and neck pain. Work ...

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It's also used for joint pain in the hands or knees (osteoarthritis) and rheumatoid arthritis. And it's often used to lower fevers in adults and children. Always follow the right dose and talk to your ...

Case 2. A 25-year-old woman with right-lower-quadrant abdominal pain was operated on for acute appendicitis. Spinal anesthesia to the 6th thoracic dermatome was obtained with Pontocaine and ...

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Dyspnea on mild exertion, orthopnea and a dull, aching right-upper-quadrant pain developed 3 days before ... in the tracing taken six weeks later (lower tracing). The clinical impression was ...

And as if that wasn't enough, in addition to dulling pain NSAIDs also lower fever and reduce swelling. But how do those little pills do so much? And if they're so good in some ways, why do they ...

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