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Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Knee, swelling
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Septic arthritis (staphylococci, gonococci, Gram -ve bacilli, TB, Lyme disease)
Trauma, haemarthrosis (in haemophiliacs)
Gout/pseudogout
Rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis
Seronegative arthritides (reactive arthritis, enteropathic arthritis (IBD, Whipple's
disease), ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis)
Systemic: SLE, Sjogren's syndrome, sarcoidosis, Behc;et's disease, vasculitides
Malignancy
Localized swellings:
Anterior: pre-patellar bursa
lnfrapatellar bursa
Osgood-Schlatter disease
Lateral/medial: lateral/medial meniscus cyst
Exostosis
Posterior:
Semimembranous bursa
Baker's cyst
Popliteal aneurysm


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