| Pain and nociception |
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| Head and neck | Jaw and mouth pain (Odynophagia , temporal arteritis) • Ear pain (otalgia, otitis media, otitis externa) • Eye pain (glaucoma) • Head pain (headache, migraine, tension headache, cluster headache, cerebral aneurysm, sinusitis, meningitis) • Neck pain (atypical myocardial infarction) |
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| Thorax | Back pain (upper back pain, lower back pain, spinal disc herniation, degenerative disc disease, coccydynia) • Breast pain (perimenstrual, breast cancer) • Chest pain (myocardial infarction, gastroesophageal reflux disease, pancreatitis, hiatus hernia, aortic dissection, asymptomatic pulmonary embolism, Tietze's syndrome) • Shoulder pain (right side - cholecystitis) |
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| Abdominal pain | Left and right upper quadrant (peptic ulcer disease, gastroenteritis, hepatitis, pancreatitis, cholecystitis, atypical myocardial infarction, abdominal aortic aneurysm, asymptomatic gastric cancer) • Left and right lower quadrant (appendicitis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, ectopic pregnancy, endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, diverticulitis, urolithiasis, pyelonephritis, colorectal cancer) |
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| Limbs | Arms (myocardial infarction, left arm) • Legs (deep vein thrombosis, peripheral artery occlusive disease, claudication, spinal disc herniation, sciatica) |
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| Joints | Small joints (osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosis, gout, pseudogout • Large joints (septic arthritis, hemarthrosis, osteonecrosis) • Back joints (ankylosing spondylitis, inflammatory bowel disease) • Other (psoriatic arthritis, Reiter's syndrome) |
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| Musculoskeletal | Delayed onset muscle soreness, Myalgia, Physical trauma |
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| Other/unspecified pain | Allodynia, breakthrough pain, chronic pain, congenital insensitivity to pain, congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis, hyperalgesia, hyperpathia, neuralgia, pain asymbolia, pain disorder, paroxysmal extreme pain disorder, phantom pain, referred pain |
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| Related concepts | Anterolateral system, gate control theory of pain, pain management (anesthesia, cordotomy), pain scale, pain threshold, posteromarginal nucleus, substance P |
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