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Approach to Joint Pain - Diagnostic Framework

1) Chronicity
2) Inflammatory vs Non-Inflammatory
3) Number of Joints Involved

1) Chronicity:
Approach to Joint ... ): • Septic joint ... so trauma and joint ... Inflammatory, crystalline ... approach #workup #differential
Joint Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Monoarthritis
 • Septic
 • Crystalline
     - Gout
Joint Disorders ... - Differential Diagnosis ... • Septic • Crystalline ... @AmyChung #Joint ... Disorders #msk #Differential
Gout: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
 - Conditions of rapid cell turnover: hemolysis, psoriasis, lymphoproliferative disorders
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Pathogenesis and Clinical ... easily leaks into joints ... -> Uric acid crystallizes ... in a peripheral joint ... Neutrophils enter joint
Rheumatoid Arthritis Summary
Overview: chronic, inflammatory symmetric polyarthritis involving small joints of hands/feet, knees, shoulders
Signs & Symptoms:
involving small joints ... • synovitis; joint ... tenderness • joint ... Ultrasound Diagnosis: CLINICAL ... Arthritis #diagnosis #management
Typical Clinical Presentations of Septic Arthritis by Pathogen and Joint Involvement

#Diagnosis #Septic #Arthritis #Differential #History #Presentation
Typical Clinical ... by Pathogen and Joint ... Septic #Arthritis #Differential
False Positive Lung Point on POCUS
Lung-Cardiac Point and Lung-Diaphragm Point
These images highlight selected differentials to pleural
Positive Lung Point ... Lung-Cardiac Point ... highlight selected differentials ... LungPoint #POCUS #clinical ... ultrasound #pulmonary #differential
Mallet Finger
Absence of a fracture does NOT exclude Mallet finger, the extension function of the DIP
function of the DIP joint ... needs to be clinically ... and tender DIP joint ... fracture • ED Management ... XRay #Diagnosis #Management
Humeral Avulsion of the Inferior Glenohumeral Ligament (HAGL)
 • Imaging Findings:
 • Large defect of the
outside of the joint ... the defective joint ... Differential diagnosis ... Ligament #shoulder #clinical ... #mri #clinical
SAPHO Syndrome Summary

What?
SAPHO syndrome is a rare chronic inflammatory disorder of bone, joint, and skin characterized
disorder of bone, joint ... inflammation of the joints ... Rheumatic pain Clinical ... Diagnosis: • A clinical ... Rheumatology #diagnosis #management
Gout (Gouty Arthritis) - MSK Radiology
Imaging Findings:
 • Eccentric soft-tissue densities surrounding the third proximal interphalangeal
interphalangeal joint ... with joint-space ... prior signs or clinical ... surgeon had a clinical ... Differential diagnosis