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Emergency Medicine Test Prep

Category - Abdominal and Genitourinary Trauma

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A 30 year old patient was brought to the emergency department was history of blunt abdominal trauma the patient was having left shoulder pain left upper quadrant pain and tenderness you suspect that the patient spleen is ruptured you are going to start examination of the patient on which quadrant of the abdomen the spleen is located ?
  1. Right upper quadrant
  2. Left upper quadrant
  3. Right lower quadrant
  4. Left lower quadrant
Explanation
Answer: B - The abdomen is divided into quadrants for the ease of examination and every quadrant has its specific organs located the spleen is located in left upper quadrant.
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