A. Monoarthritis Differential
- Acute Monoarthritis
Common | Less Common |
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Bacterial arthritis | Leukemia |
Gout or CPPD Disease | Rheumatoid arthritis |
Spondyloarthropathies | Sarcoid arthritis |
Reiter syndrome | Hemarthrosis |
Psoriatic arthritis | Coagulopathy |
Inflammatory bowel disease | Dialysis Arthropathy |
Hemarthrosis w/ Trauma | Osteochondromatosis |
Juvenile RA | Pigmented Vilonodular Synovitis (PVNS) |
Anticoagulant therapy | Pancreatic Panniculitis |
- Chronic Monoarthritis
Common | Less Common |
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Osteoarthritis | Fungal arthritis |
Spondyloarthropathies | Tuberculous arthritis |
Lyme disease (recurring) | Bacterial arthritis |
Avascular Necrosis | Monarticular RA |
Pseudogout (CPPD) | Sarcoid arthritis |
PVNS | Osteochondromatosis |
Fracture Associated Effusion |
B. Polyarthritis Differential
- Acute Polyarthritis
Common | Less Common |
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Migratory |
Neisseria infection | Viral (Hep B, rubella, EBV, parvo B 19) |
Acute rheumatic fever | |
Lyme disease (early) | |
Nonmigratory |
Rheumatoid arthritis | Hematologic disorders |
Serum sickness | Polyarticular gout |
Systemic lupus | |
Polyarticular JRA | |
- Chronic Polyarthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Polyarticular JRA
- Polyarticular gout
- Osteoarthritis
- Sarcoid arthritis
- Overlap syndromes
- Spondyloarthropathy
- Periarthritis Component
- Gout
- Pseudogout (CPPD)
- SLE
- Palindromic Rheumatism
- Sarcoid Arthritis
- Calcific Tendinitis
- Polyarthritis and Fever [1]
- Septic Arthritis (including gonococcal)
- Connective tissue and other autoimmune diseases
- Viral arthropathy
- Reactive arthropathy
- Lyme disease
- Sickle cell anemia
- Infective endocarditis
- Leukemia or lymphoma
- Gout
- Pseudogout
- Acute Rheumatic Fever
C. Cross References
References
- Carapetis JR, McDonald M, Wilson NJ. 2005. Lancet. 366(9480):155