Template:Knee Pain DDX
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Differential Diagnoses
Focal anterior
- Patellar tendinopathy or tear
- Quadriceps tendinopathy or tear
- Hoffa's fat pad syndrome
- Prepatellar/infrapatellar bursitis
- Osgood-schlatter
Vague or diffuse anterior
- Patellofemoral pain syndrome
- Osteoarthritis exacerbation
- Patellar dislocation or subluxation
- Referred hip pain
- Avascular necrosis
- Patellar stress fracture
- Anterior cruciate ligament tear
- Osteochondral defect
- Posterior cruciate ligament tear
- Tibiofemoral dislocation
Medial
- Medial meniscal tear
- MCL tear
- Medial Plica Syndrome
- Pes anserine bursitis/tendinopathy
- Osteoarthritis exacerbation
- Saphenous nerve entrapment
Lateral
- Lateral meniscus tear
- Posterior lateral corner injury
- Patellar dislocation or subluxation
- Lateral collateral ligament tear
- Iliotibial Band Syndrome
- Osteoarthritis exacerbation
- Popliteus Tendinopathy
- Biceps Femoris Tendinoapthy
- Semimembranosus Tendinopathy/bursitis
- Fibula head fracture
Posterior
- Baker's or popliteal cyst
- Popliteus Tendinopathy
- Popliteal artery aneurysm
- Popliteal artery entrapment
- Posterior capsule tear
- Posterior cruciate ligament tear
- Tibiofemoral dislocation
Effusion present without trauma
- Osteochondral injury
- Osteoarthritis exacerbation
- Rheumatological disease (gout, RA, psoriatic arthritis)
- Septic arthritis