Biliary Colic Presenting as Right-Sided Cervical Radiculopathy

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Alexander Kervyn De Volkaersbeke Angela Taylor Behnum Habibi

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Alexander Kervyn De Volkaersbeke
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

A B S T R A C T

A 50-year-old female patient presented with several weeks of right-sided neck, posterior shoulder, and arm pain suggestive of cervical radiculopathy. Her diagnostic workup included cervical spine x-rays and a cervical spine MRI which showed degenerative changes and mild cervical spinal stenosis. She was evaluated by a spine surgeon and a pain medicine specialist. Multiple treatments were administered without success, including courses of celecoxib and gabapentin. Several rounds of epidural steroid injections were also administered, with only transient relief. Upon developing acute right upper quadrant abdominal pain and undergoing a laparoscopic cholecystectomy for biliary colic, the patient reported resolution of her chronic right neck, posterior shoulder, and arm pain.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Mon 20, Jun 2022
Accepted: Mon 25, Jul 2022
Published: Fri 19, Aug 2022

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© 2023 Alexander Kervyn De Volkaersbeke. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2022.08.03