Template:Shoulder Pain DDX

Differential Diagnoses

• Shoulder disorders
  • Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy and Subacromial Pain Syndrome
  • Adhesive Capsulitis
  • Proximal Biceps Tendon Disorders
  • Shoulder Osteoarthritis
  • Inflammatory Arthritis (RA, hydroxyapatite deposition, Spondyloarthritis)
  • Acromioclavicular Joint Osteoarthritis or separation
  • Shoulder Labral Tear
  • Quadrilateral Space Syndrome
  • Avascular necrosis humeral head
  • Suprascapular Nerve Entrapment
  • Fracture
• Cervical disorders
  • Cervical radiculopathy (arthritis, disk, tumor)
  • Cervical somatic referred pain (facet, disc)
• Other
  • Myofascial pain
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
  • Polymyalgia Rheumatica
  • Herpes zoster
  • Neuralgic Amyotrophy
  • Psychiatric
  • Septic arthritis
  • Neoplasm
• Visceral disorders
  • Biliary disease
  • Myocardial ischemia, infarction
  • Intra-abdominal bleeding (ectopic, ruptured ovarian cyst)
  • Pneumonia
  • Lung tumor, Pancoast tumor
  • Pulmonary embolus
  • Ruptured abdominal viscus
  • Ruptured spleen
  • Abdominal malignancy
  • Pericarditis