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​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Meigs’ Syndrome
• Abdominal-ovarian malignant disease
• Amyloidosis
• Ascites
• Fallopian tube: hydrosalpinx, granulomatous salpingitis,
• Gynecologic disorders
• Hypoproteinemia
• Inferior vena cava (IVC) obstruction
• Neoplasm
• Nongynecologic causes of pelvic mass
• Ovarian hyperstimulation
• Ovary: benign, serous, mucinous, endometrioid, clear cell, Brenner tumor, granulosa, stromal, dysgerminoma, fibroma, metastatic tumor
• Pancreatitis
• Pleural effusion
• Portal vein obstruction
• TB
• Thoracic duct obstruction
• Uterus: endometrial tumor, sarcoma, leiomyoma (“pseudo-Meigs’ syndrome”)
fallopian tube malignant neoplasm
• Congestive heart failure (CHF)
• Malignant disease
• Collagen-vascular disease
• Pancreatitis
• Cirrhosis
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​Symptoms and Signs- Differential Diagnosis of Lymphocytopenia
• Steroids
• Neurologic disorders (multiple sclerosis [MS], myasthenia gravis, Guillain-Barré syndrome)
• Neoplasms
• Hyperadrenalism
• HIV infection
• Bone marrow suppression from chemotherapeutic agents or chemotherapy
• Aplastic anemia
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​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis - Lymphocytosis
• Ulcerative colitis
• Infectious mononucleosis and other viral infections
• Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
• Hypoadrenalism
• Hodgkin’s disease
• Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
• Chronic infections
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​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Inherited Macrothrombocytopenia 
• Bernard-Soulier syndrome
• Epstein syndrome
• Fechtner syndrome
• GATA1 mutations
• Gray platelet syndrome
• May-Hegglin anomaly
• Mediterranean macrothrombocytopenia
• Mediterranean stomatocytosis/macrothrombocytopenia
• Montreal platelet syndrome
• MYH9-related disorders
• Paris-Trousseau syndrome
• Platelet-type von Willebrand disease
• Sebastian syndrome
• Sialyl Lewis S antigen deficiency
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​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Malabsorption
Causes of malabsorption:
• Abetalipoproteinemia (autosomal recessive)
• AIDS (Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare, AIDS enteropathy)
• Amyloidosis
• Celiac disease
• Chronic mesenteric ischemia
• Chronic pancreatitis
• Collagenous sprue
• Crohn’s disease
• Eosinophilic gastroenteritis
• Immunoproliferative small intestinal disease (alpha heavy chaindisease)
• Intestinal lymphangiectasia
• Intestinal lymphoma
• Irradiation enteritis
• Lactase deficiency
• Nongranulomatous ulcerative jejunoileitis
• Post gastrectomy
• Small bowel resection
• Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth
• Systemic mastocytosis
• Tropical sprue
• Whipple’s disease
• Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
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