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Referred Shoulder Pain due to Liver Abscess -A case report-  

Park, Sang Hyun (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital)
Lee, Pyung Bok (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital)
Seo, Myung Sin (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital)
Lim, Yun Hee (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital)
Oh, Yong Seok (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital)
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The Korean Journal of Pain / v.18, no.2, 2005 , pp. 267-270 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
liver abscess; referred pain;
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