Continuing Medical Education: Synovitis.
Edited By: Gregory C. Gardner, M.D.
Last updated Thursday, February 10, 2005
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Systemic features and differential diagnosisWhat are diseases or syndromes related to synovitis? There are a variety of systemic features that can help in the
differential diagnosis of joint pain/arthritis. Finding these requires
a complete review of systems and a good general examination with
emphasis on the skin, eyes, heart, lungs, GI, GU, and nervous system.
Below is a list of some of the diseases/syndromes for which systemic
features are important in the differential diagnosis.
- Skin
- Gout
- Spondyloarthropathy
- Sarcoidosis
- Lyme disease
- Disseminated gonorrhea
- Rheumatic fever
- Viral syndromes
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Systemic lupus
- Serum sickness
- Eyes
- Spondyloarthropathy
- Sarcoidosis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Heart
- Spondyloarthropathy
- Lyme disease
- Endocarditis
- Systemic lupus
- Rheumatic fever
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Lungs
- Tuberculosis
- Fungi
- Sarcoidosis
- Systemic lupus
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- GI/GU
- Spondyloarthropathy
- Systemic lupus
- Gout
- Endocarditis
- CNS/PNS
- Sarcoidosis
- Lyme disease
- Systemic lupus
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