What does RUQ stand for?

Right Upper Quadrant (medicine)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

In the right upper quadrant of the abdomen is situated a small pear-shaped organ directly under the liver called the gall bladder.

Gall Bladder Treatment

The abdomen was tender at the right upper quadrant.

Clinical recovery and circulating botulinum toxin type F in adult ...

Positive results were also seen in the mitigation of edema, right upper quadrant pain, portal vein hypertension, jugular vein distension, dark tongue due to blood stasis, cerebral vascular conditions, and senility.

Vein Lite: a Chinese herbal formula for cardiovascular problems

Limited abdominal MRI in the evaluation of acute right upper quadrant pain.

CT for upper abdominal pathology--is imaging of the pelvis necessary?

Sulcular hemorrhage is elicited with periodontal probing throughout the right upper quadrant (RUQ), and localized areas of frank hemorrhage are evident.

Twenty-year-old male patient with idiopathic intellectual disability ...

Inflammatory pseudotumors have been reported to cause chronic cough (as a result of endobronchial growth), (2) dry cough, fever, pleuritic pain, (8) right upper quadrant or epigastric pain, (1) and several constitutional symptoms, (1-5) such as malaise, weight loss, fatigue, and syncope.

Inflammatory pseudotumor of the trachea. (Original Article)

REPORT OF A CASE A 34-year-old woman presented with right upper quadrant abdominal pain.

Malignant stromal tumor of the gallbladder with interstitial cells of ...

Smith, we saw your patient with right upper quadrant pain in the ED.

Here's what new ED ultrasound guidelines say