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Latest revision as of 22:12, 23 March 2022
Differential Diagnoses
Lateral Elbow Pain
- Lateral Elbow Tendinopathy
- Referred pain (Cervical spine, Upper thoracic spine, Myofascial)
- Synovitis of the radiohumeral joint
- Radiohumeral bursitis
- Radial Head Fractures
- Radial Head Dislocation
- Capitellar Osteochondritis Dissecans (Capitellum, Radius in adolescents)
- Capitellar Osteochondrosis
- Lateral Condyle Fracture
- Capitellum Fracture
- Lateral Collateral Ligament Complex Injury
- Radial Head Subluxation (Nursemaid Elbow)
- Radiocapitellar Osteoarthrosis
- Bone Neoplasm
- Soft Tissue Neoplasm
- Posterolateral Rotary Instability
- Posterior Interosseous Nerve Entrapment or Radial Neuropathy at the Spiral Groove
- Posterolateral Plica Syndrome
Medial Elbow Pain
- Medial Elbow Tendinopathy
- Medial collateral ligament injury (acute and chronic)
- Ulnar neuritis
- Avulsion fracture of the medial epicondyle (children and adolescents)
- Apophysitis (children and adolescents)
- Referred pain (Cervical Radicular Pain, somatic referred myofascial pain)
- Myofascial pain
- Ulnar Neuropathy
- Little Leaguer's Elbow
- Triceps Tendinopathy and rupture
- Fractures (Olecranon Fracture, Pediatric Medial Epicondyle Avulsion, Coronoid Process Fracture, Medial Condyle Fracture)
- Medial epitrochlear lymphadenopathy (e.g. from cat-scratch disease)
- Anconeus Epitrochlearis
- Cyst, Mass, Foreign Body
Posterior Elbow Pain
- Olecranon bursitis
- Triceps Tendinopathy
- Posterior impingement
- Gout
Anterior Elbow Pain
Generalised
- Osteoarthritis
- If locking consider chondromalacia, osteochondritis, loose bodies
Differentiating Factors
Coombes et al summarised the important differentiating features of lateral elbow tendinopathy, shown below [1]
References