hepatomegaly

Symptom/Finding
hepatomegaly
Description
Liver enlargement; Causes of fever and hepatomegaly include: amebic liver abcess, babesiosis, Bartonella species infection, brucellosis, Chagas' disease, clonorchiasis, echinococcosis, fascioliasis, histoplasmosis, malaria, mononucleosis, viral hepatitis, opisthorchiasis, psittacosis, relapsing fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, schistosomiasis, syphilis, toxocariasis, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid fever, typhus, visceral leishmaniasis. [ID, p. 62, Table 5.12]
Category
Gastrointestinal
ICD-9 Code
789.1
ICD-10 Code
R16.0
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