Hydatid Cysts Differential Diagnoses
- Author: Imad S Dandan, MD; Chief Editor: Julian Katz, MD more...
Differential Diagnoses
- Abdominal Abscess
- Acute Liver Failure
- Biliary Colic
- Biliary Obstruction
- Budd-Chiari Syndrome
- Cysticercosis
- Head Trauma
- Hepatic Carcinoma, Primary
- Hepatic Cysts
- Hydrocephalus
- Hypersensitivity Reactions, Immediate
- Inferior Vena Caval Thrombosis
- Intra-abdominal Sepsis
- Liver Abscess
- Lung Abscess
- Portal Hypertension
- Pyogenic Hepatic Abscesses
- Teratoma, Cystic
- Tuberculosis
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