Abdominal Pain? Think in Quadrants Breaking down the abdomen into 4 quadrants can help narrow your differential diagnosis in seconds. 🟩 RUQ – Think gallbladder, liver, right kidney 🟥 LUQ – Think stomach, spleen, pancreas 🟨 RLQ – Think appendix, ovaries, Crohn’s 🟦 LLQ – Think diverticulitis, ovaries, constipation 📍Localise the pain. 📋 Link it to pathology. 🧠 Clinical reasoning starts here. 💾 Save this for revision 👥 Tag someone studying this now 💬 Got a memory hack for this? Share below

Know Your 9️⃣ Abdominal Regions ⌚️ Here’s a quick breakdown of the 9 abdominal regions and the major organs inside each. 🩺 Perfect for assessments, documentation, and sounding clever on shift. ⚫️ Right Hypochondriac – Liver, gallbladder ⚫️ Epigastric – Stomach, pancreas Left Hypochondriac – Spleen, stomach ⚫️ Right Lumbar – Ascending colon, right kidney ⚫️ Umbilical – Small bowel, transverse colon ⚫️ Left Lumbar – Descending colon, left kidney ⚫️ Right Iliac – Appendix, caecum ⚫️ Hypogastric –