Differential diagnosis
Common
Infrequent
- Acute appendicitis
- Lung cancer
- Anorexia nervosa
- Chronic kidney disease
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Hand
- foot and mouth disease
- Infectious mononucleosis
- Clostridium difficile diarrhoea
- Pancreatic cancer
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy
- Temporal arteritis
- Hepatitis C
- Tuberculosis
- Renal cancer
- Vitamin B12 deficiency
- Oesophageal cancer
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Subacute (De Quervain's) thyroiditis
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Crohn's disease
- Shigellosis
- Ovarian cancer
- Gastric cancer
- Infective endocarditis
- Mesothelioma
- Henoch-Schonlein purpura
Rare
- Myeloma
- Measles
- Cholangiocarcinoma
- Addison's disease
- Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Malaria (Falciparum)
- Acute liver failure
- Extrinsic allergic alveolitis
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Hepatitis B
- Goodpasture's syndrome