Korean J Pain.  2005 Dec;18(2):267-270. 10.3344/kjp.2005.18.2.267.

Referred Shoulder Pain due to Liver Abscess: A case report

• Park SH
• Lee PB
• Seo MS
• Lim YH
• Oh YS

• KMID: 2278005
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3344/kjp.2005.18.2.267

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.

Keyword

liver abscess; referred pain

MeSH Terms

Diagnostic Errors
Fever
Humans
Liver Abscess*
Liver*
Male
Pain, Referred
Shoulder Pain*
Shoulder*