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Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome: a diagnosis to consider in women with right upper quadrant pain
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Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome: a diagnosis to consider in women with right upper quadrant pain

Nadja G Peter, Liana R Clark and Jeffrey R Jaeger
Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine, v 71(3), 233
01 Mar 2004
PMID: 15055246

Abstract

Abdominal Pain - etiology Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use Cefotetan - therapeutic use Diagnosis, Differential Female Gonorrhea - drug therapy Hepatitis - diagnosis Hepatitis - etiology Humans Pelvic Inflammatory Disease - complications Pelvic Inflammatory Disease - diagnosis Pelvic Inflammatory Disease - drug therapy Syndrome
Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome--inflammation of the liver capsule associated with genital tract infection--occurs in up to one fourth of patients with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Classically presenting as sharp, pleuritic right upper quadrant pain, usually but not always accompanied by signs of salpingitis, it can mimic many other common disorders such as cholecystitis and pyelonephritis.

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