Anterior Thigh Pain Differential Diagnoses
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Differential
- Quadriceps muscle contusion or strain (distal rectus femoris, or proximal rectus femoris), sartorius or gracilis muscle sprain
- Myositis ossificans
- Referred pain from upper lumbar spine, sacroiliac joint, or hip joint
- Lumbar Radicular Pain (L4)
- Lumbar plexopathy - weakness of hip adductors and flexors, abdominal wall pain
- Stress fracture of femur
- Avulsion of rectus femoris apophysis
- Hip Nerve Entrapment Syndromes: Lateral cutaneous, femoral cutaneous, obturator
- SUFE
- Perthes disease
- Acute compartment syndrome of the thigh
- Endometriosis
- Diabetic radiculopathy or plexopathy
- Acute retroperitoneal haematoma or abscess
- Iliacus Pyomyositis
- Tumours of the femoral nerve, ilium, or iliopsoas muscle
- Pseudoaneurysm of the iliac vessels
- Vasculitis
- Upper motor neuron lesion
