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Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Leg swelling
Bilateral
Heart failure
Hypothyroidism
Iatrogenic: oestrogens, calcium channel blockers, fluid overload
Liver failure, other causes of hypoalbuminaemia (malnutrition, malabsorption, nephrotic syndrome, protein-losing enteropathy)
Renal failure
Venous insufficiency: acute (prolonged sitting), chronic
Venous obstruction, e.g. pelvic mass, pregnancy, IVGbilateral iliac vein obstruction

Unilateral
Acute
Baker's cyst rupture
Cellulitis
Compartment syndrome, trauma
DVT

Chronic
Immobility
infection (filariasis), malignant infiltration, excision
Lymphoedema (non-pitting): primary, lymph node involvement: radiotherapy,
Varicose veins


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