Causes of left lower quadrant abdominal pain

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Causes of Left Lower Quadrant Abdominal Pain

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Cardiovascular Abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture, ischemic colitis, malignant hypertension, mesenteric artery ischemia, rheumatoid vasculitis, systemic vasculitis
Chemical/Poisoning Ethylene glycol poisoning, food poisoning, heavy metal poisoning, methanol, organophosphate poisoning
Dental No underlying causes
Dermatologic Scarlet fever, shingles
Drug Side Effect Statins, steroid abuse, thrombolytic therapy, vitamin D toxicity
Ear Nose Throat No underlying causes
Endocrine Carcinoid, diabetic ketoacidosis
Environmental Organophosphate poisoning
Gastroenterologic Abdominal compartment syndrome, acute diverticulitis, chronic constipation, collagenous colitis, colon cancer, colonic lymphoma, Crohn's disease, diverticular abscess, eosinophilic gastroenteritis, familial adenomatous polyposis, fecal impaction, gastroenteritis, hepatorenal syndrome, inguinal hernia, internal hernia, intestinal pseudo-obstruction, intussusception, irritable bowel syndrome, ischemic colitis, large bowel obstruction, malignant peritoneal mesothelioma, omental cyst, pelvic abscess, perforated gastric ulcer, perianal abscess, peritonitis, porphyria, proctalgia fugax, rectal injury, rectal abscess, rectal ulcer, small bowel adhesions, small bowel obstruction, ulcerative colitis, visceral hamartoma, visceral hemangioma, volvulus, wandering spleen syndrome
Genetic Colon atresia, familial adenomatous polyposis, porphyria, Von Hippel-Lindau disease
Hematologic Lymphoma, porphyria
Iatrogenic Colonic surgery, colonoscopy, hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, intra abdominal adhesions, percutaneous abdominal biopsy, peritoneal dialysis, radiation therapy, referred pain
Infectious Disease Bacteroides, chlamydia, cystitis, gardnerella vaginalis, gastroenteritis, gonorrhea, miliary tuberculosis, mumps, pelvic inflammatory disease, peritonitis, psoas abscessseminal vesiculitis, salpingitis, septic arthritis, shingles, transient synovitis, tuboovarian abscess
Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic Hip dislocation, polymyositis, psoas abscess, septic arthritis, transient synovitis
Neurologic
Nutritional/Metabolic
Obstetric/Gynecologic abortion, bacterial vaginosis, bacteroides, broad ligament neoplasms, child birth, chlamydia, corpus luteum of pregnancy, cystitis, dysmenorrhoea, Eclampsia, ectopic pregnancy, endometriosis, endometritis, fallopian tubal carcinoma, gardnerella vaginalis, gestational trophoblastic disease, gonorrhea, HIV, hydatid cyst of Morgagni, infarction or torsion of uterine leiomyoma, intra-uterine device, luteoma, ovarian cancer, ovarian cyst, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, Ovarian metastasis, ovarian torsion, paramesonephric cysts, pelvic inflammatory disease, polycyctic ovary syndrome, Reiter’s syndrome, salpingitis, theca lutein cysts, uterine fibroids, uterine torsion
Oncologic Colon cancer, colonic lymphoma, fallopian tubal carcinoma, familial adenomatous polyposis, Ovarian metastasis, ovarian cancer, tumor lysis syndrome, uterine fibroids, visceral hamartoma, visceral hemangioma, Von Hippel-Lindau disease
Ophthalmologic No underlying causes
Overdose/Toxicity Cocaine overdose, steroid abuse
Psychiatric Intestinal pseudo-obstruction, irritable bowel syndrome
Pulmonary
Renal/Electrolyte Ureteral colic, urinary outflow obstruction, Von Hippel-Lindau disease
Rheumatology/Immunology/Allergy Allergic gastroenteropathy, Crohn's disease, food intolerance, Henoch-Schönlein purpura, rheumatoid vasculitis, scarlet fever, systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic vasculitis, ulcerative colitis
Sexual Seminal vesiculitis, testicular torsion, torsion of epididymis
Trauma Electrical burns, rib fractures, splenic laceration and hematoma, traumatic splenic rupture
Urologic Bladder distension
Miscellaneous Chronic constipation, foreign body ingestion, idiopathic, inguinal lymphadenopathy, splenosis

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