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Differential Diagnosis

In alphabetical order.

• Amyloidosis
• Bronchial carcinoma
• Chagas disease
• Chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction
• Drugs
• Gastric carcinoma
• Herpes Zoster
• Hodgkin's Lymphoma
• Idiopathic achalasia
• Ischemia
• Mesothelioma
• Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
• Postvagotomy
• Prostate cancer
• Radiation therapy
• Sarcoidosis
• Toxins