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A child is 12 years old. He complains of a dull aching pain in the epigastrium and right hypochondrium, that is getting worse after taking fatty or fried food, headache, weakness, nausea, low-grade fever. Abdominal palpation reveals a marked resistance of muscles in the right hypochondrium, positive Kerr's, Ortner's, Murphy's symptoms. What is the most likely diagnosis?

Answer options

  1. Acute appendicitis
  2. Viral hepatitis
  3. Acute gastritis
  4. Chronic cholecystitis
  5. Acute pancreatitis
Correct answer

Chronic cholecystitis

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