Monoarticular arthritis
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Differential Diagnosis
Common causes
- Avascular necrosis of bone
- Crystals
- Monosodium urate
- Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate
- Apatite
- Calcium oxalate
- Hemarthrosis
- Infectious arthritis
- Bacteria
- Fungi
Still’s disease Mycobacteria Synovioma Viruses Synovial metastasis Lyme disease Vasculitic syndromes
Internal derangement
Osteoarthritis
Osteomyelitis
Overuse
Trauma
Less Common Causes
- Bone malignancies
- Bowel-disease–associated arthritis
- Hemoglobinopathies
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
- Loose body
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Reactive arthritis
- Sarcoidosis
Rare Causes
- Amyloidosis
- Behçet’s syndrome
- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- Foreign-body synovitis
- Hypertrophic pulmonary
- Osteoarthropathy
- Intermittent hydrarthrosis
- Pigmented villonodular synovitis
- Relapsing polychondritis