DDx Anterior Knee Pain

Plica 

 

Jumper's knee / Tendonitis

 

Bursitis

- prepatellar most common

- Pes anserinus 

 

Excessive Lateral Pressure Syndrome / Patella Tilt

 

Hoffa's Disease / Fat Pad Syndrome

 

ITB Syndrome

 

RSD

 

Others

- RA

- Synovial Chondromatosis

- Meniscal tears

- PVNS

- PF Arthritis

- Tumours - hemangiomas 

- Referred Pain - hip / back /ankle

- Cruciate ligament insufficiency / reconstruction

 

Adolescent Knee Pain

 

Bipartite / Multipartite Patella 

 

Sinding Larsen Johannsen

  

Maltracking /alignment 

- ELPL / alta / baja 

 

Osgood-Schlatter's

- local inflammatory around avulsions of apophysis

- self -limiting

- rarely requires surgical management

 

Menelaus-Batten Syndrome

- Johannson- Larsen's disease that affects upper pole patella

- may see fragmentation

 

Hypermobile patella

- ligamentous laxity