Referred Shoulder Pain due to Liver Abscess: A case report.
10.3344/kjp.2005.18.2.267
- Author:
Sang Hyun PARK
1
;
Pyung Bok LEE
;
Myung Sin SEO
;
Yun Hee LIM
;
Yong Seok OH
Author Information
1. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea. painfree@snubh.org
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
liver abscess;
referred pain
- MeSH:
Diagnostic Errors;
Fever;
Humans;
Liver Abscess*;
Liver*;
Male;
Pain, Referred;
Shoulder Pain*;
Shoulder*
- From:The Korean Journal of Pain
2005;18(2):267-270
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Referred pain is not localized to the site of its cause, but referred to an area that may be an adjacent distant from such a site. With respect to this, there is the possibility of misdiagnosis in the treatment of referred pain patient. We experienced a case of a 31-years-old male patient complaining of right shoulder pain, which subsided after a bursa injection. The patient revisited our clinic after 3 weeks complaining not only of right shoulder pain, but also of right upper quadrant pain and fever. He was diagnosed as having a liver abscess by an imaging study.
