Painless+Jaundice

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Ramsburg's Crutch: Congenital Autoimmune Traumatic Neoplastic Infectious Degenerative

Extrahepatic obstruction. Common duct abnormalities: calculi, neoplasm, stricture, cyst, sclerosing cholangitis. Metastatic carcinoma. Pancreatic carcinoma, pseudocyst. Ampullary carcinoma. Hepatocellular disease: hepatitis, cirrhosis. Drugs: estrogens, phenothiazines, captopril, methyltestosterone, labetalol. Cholestatic jaundice of pregnancy. Hereditary disorders: Dubin-Johnson syndrome, Rotor's syndrome. Recurrent benign intrahepatic cholestasis.

PREDOMINANCE OF INDIRECT (UNCONJUGATED) BILIRUBIN

Hemolysis: hereditary and acquired hemolytic anemias. Inefficient marrow production. Impaired hepatic conjugation: chloramphenicol. Neonatal jaundice. Hereditary disorders: Gilbert's syndrome, Crigler-Najjar syndrome.