Liver Enlargement (Hepatomegaly): Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

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

  • Storage diseases (thesaurismoses) – such as amyloidosis, glycogenosis, hemochromatosis (iron storage disease), lipoidosis, Gaucher disease, Krabbe disease, mucopolysaccharidosis, etc.

Cardiovascular system (I00-I99).

  • Diseases of the lymphatic system, unspecified.
  • Right-sided heart failure (right-sided cardiac insufficiency)

Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).

  • Infections, unspecified
  • Parasitoses, unspecified – infections with parasites such as worms.
  • Viral hepatitis (inflammation of the liver)

Liver, gallbladder, and bile ducts-pancreas (pancreas) (K70-K77; K80-K87).

  • Hepatitis (inflammation of the liver)
  • Steatosis hepatis (fatty liver)

Musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99).

Neoplasms – tumor diseases (C00-D48).

  • Colon (large intestine) tumors, unspecified.
  • Leukemia (blood cancer)
  • Malignant lymphoma – malignant neoplasms that affect the lymphatic system.
  • Metastases
  • Pancreatic (pancreas) tumor, unspecified.
  • Solid tumors, unspecified

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

  • Unexplained renal enlargement, unspecified.