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Acute Knee PainAka: Knee Pain

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  1. See Also
    1. Knee Anatomy
    2. Knee Injury Acute History
    3. Knee Examination
    4. Ottawa Knee Rules
  2. Causes of adult knee pain by frequency
    1. Most common causes of acute knee pain
      1. Knee Osteoarthritis (most common)
      2. Medial Meniscus Injury
      3. Lateral Meniscus Injury
      4. Medial lateral collateral ligament injury
      5. Lateral collateral ligament injury
      6. Anterior cruciate ligament rupture (ACL rupture)
      7. Posterior cruciate ligament rupture (PCL rupture)
      8. Acute Gouty Arthritis
      9. Fracture
    2. Rare causes of acute knee pain
      1. Rheumatoid Arthritis
      2. Septic Arthritis
      3. Pseudogout
  3. Causes of pain by location
    1. Anterior knee pain
      1. Patellar Subluxation
      2. Osgood Schlatter
      3. Jumper's Knee
      4. Patellofemoral Syndrome
      5. Chondromalacia Patellae
      6. Prepatellar Bursitis
      7. Patellofemoral Osteoarthritis
    2. Posterior knee pain
      1. Baker's Cyst
      2. Posterior Cruciate Ligament Tear
    3. Medial knee pain
      1. Medial Collateral Ligament Tear
      2. Medial Meniscus Tear
      3. Pes Anserine Bursitis
      4. Plica Syndrome
    4. Lateral knee pain
      1. Lateral Collateral Ligament Tear
      2. Lateral Meniscus Tear
      3. Iliotibial Band Syndrome
  4. Causes of pain by age
    1. See Knee Injury Acute History for injury related causes
    2. Children
      1. Osteochondritis Dissecans
      2. Osgood Schlatter
      3. Jumper's Knee
      4. Patellar Subluxation
    3. Young Adults
      1. Patellofemoral Syndrome
      2. Plica Syndrome
      3. Pes Anserine Bursitis
      4. Rheumatoid Arthritis
      5. Reiter's Syndrome
      6. Septic knee
    4. Older Adults
      1. Knee Osteoarthritis
      2. Gout
      3. Pseudogout
      4. Baker's Cyst
  5. Evaluation
    1. See Knee Injury Acute History
    2. See Knee Examination
  6. Radiology: Xray indications
    1. See Ottawa Knee Rules
    2. Evaluate for Fracture or Osteoarthritis
  7. References
    1. Calmbach (2003) Am Fam Physician 68(5):917
    2. Jackson (2003) Ann Intern Med 139:575

Knee pain (C0231749)

ConceptsSign or Symptom (T184)
EnglishArthralgia of knee, Gonalgia, Knee arthralgia, Knee joint pain, Knee pain, PAIN KNEE
Spanishdolor de rodillas, gonalgia
Parent ConceptsArthralgia (C0003862), Pain in lower limb (C0023222), Knee joint finding (C0576085), Duplicate concept (C1274013)
SourcesCOSTAR, CST, DXP, OMIM, QMR, SCTSPA, SNOMEDCT
Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)



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