Calf Swelling: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases (E00-E90).

Skin and subcutaneous (L00-L99)

  • Cellulitis* /* *

Cardiovascular system (I00-I99)

Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).

  • Filariasis* * (nematode infestation).
  • Hookworm infestation* *

Musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99).

  • Muscle hematoma*
  • Muscle herniation through the fascia* (often the middle and lower tibialis anterior muscles)
  • Muscle hypertrophy* * – enlargement of muscle cells.
  • Muscle rupture* (muscle tear; muscle fiber tear).
  • Muscle strain*
  • Ruptured (torn) Achilles tendon* .
  • Ruptured (ruptured) Baker’s cyst* (popliteal: belonging to the popliteal fossa); popliteal cyst).
  • Ruptured plantar tendon*

Neoplasms – tumor diseases (C00-D48)

  • Muscular neoplasm* – neoplasm arising from muscles, unspecified.
  • Space-occupying neoplasm in the pelvis, unspecified (with ankle swelling)* /* *

Pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium (O00-O99).

Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified (R00-R99).

Genitourinary system (kidneys, urinary tract – sex organs) (N00-N99).

  • Acute/chronic nephritis* * (kidney inflammation).
  • Nephrotic syndrome* * – collective term for symptoms occurring in various diseases of the glomerulus (renal corpuscles); proteinuria (increased excretion of protein in the urine) with a protein loss of more than 1 g/m² KOF/d; hypoproteinemia, peripheral edema (water retention) due to hypalbuminemia of < 2.5 g/dl in serum; hyperlipoproteinemia (lipid metabolism disorder).

Medications

  • See under “Edema due to medication”

* Unilateral * * Bilateral