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How is referred liver pain different from regular pain? what are the characteristics of referred liver pain in comparison to regular aches?

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Referred pain differ: Referred pain is pain that arises in structures with a simar proximal embryo logic origins & innervation that may be located at some distance from each other in the adult body and therefore misleading as to the cause of the pain. Liver disease should cause pain in the right upper abdomen but liver pain may be referred to the upper mid or lower right abdomen, right shoulder/arm or a headache.

Answered 7/22/2015

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