Open AccessUnilateral Leg Swelling: Differential Diagnostic Issue Other than Deep Vein Thrombosis
Author(s) -
Hoshino Yoichi,
Machida Moriya,
Shimano Shunichi,
Taya Teizo,
Imai Satoshi,
Matsuura Yasufumi,
Hasegawa Akira
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of general and family medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2189-7948
DOI - 10.14442/jgfm.17.4_311
Subject(s) - medicine , deep vein , cellulitis , surgery , thrombosis , differential diagnosis , venous thrombosis , thrombophlebitis , hematoma , edema , swelling , femoral vein , radiology , pathology
It is important to discriminate between deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and conditions that mimic it. Here we report on three patients, who had unilateral leg swelling mimicking DVT. The following diagnoses were found: cellulitis and metastatic abscesses by Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, inter‐muscular hematoma through femoral muscle injury, venous insufficiency caused by ureteral cancer. The cases of these various disease states serve to remind us that physicians should pay careful attention to unilateral leg swelling, when DVT has been excluded.