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Approach to Joint Pain - Arthritis Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Versus Noninflammatory Pain
 • Is it inflammatory
Approach to Joint ... Arthritis Differential Diagnosis ... constitutional symptoms ... up with pain at night ... #MSK #rheumatology
Approach to Joint Pain - Diagnostic Framework

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

1) Chronicity:
Approach to Joint ... Pain - Diagnostic ... = Worry about late ... #Joint #Pain #MSK ... #rheumatology #
Lymphomas and Lymphoproliferative Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Hodgkin Lymphoma ~40% - Characteristic For Reed-Sternberg (RS) Cells
- Differential Diagnosis ... pattern of spread, B symptoms ... Amy Chung, MD, MSc ... Classification #pathophysiology ... #Hematology #Diagnosis
Approach to Joint Pain

History:
Is the pain from:
	• Joint
	• Adjacent bursa
	• Tendon
	• Ligament
	• Bone
	• Muscle
	• Referred from
or nerve root Symptoms ... : • Acute or chronic ... #Joint #Pain #MSK ... #rheumatology # ... #differential #diagnosis
Adhesive Capsulitis (Frozen Shoulder) - Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

 • Primary (Idiopathic): Unknown etiology, but associated
tissue => Years later ... Severe, worse at night ... FrozenShoulder #pathophysiology ... #diagnosis #symptoms ... stages #staging #msk
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Rheumatologic ... 85% • < 50% in chronic ... infection) • Chronic ... Aspergillosis Pathophysiology ... shock • Mortality rate
Trigger Finger - Stenosing flexor tendon tenosynovitis

There is a change in the slip between the tendon
In the lightest ... The diagnosis is ... tenosynovitis #msk ... #clinical #physicalexam ... #orthopedics #rheumatology