Avaliação da articulação inflamada

Evidence last reviewed: 8 Mar 2026
Topic last updated: 23 Oct 2025

Summary

Differentials

Common

  • Artrite séptica não gonocócica
  • Artrite gonocócica
  • Artrite reumatoide
  • Gota
  • Pseudogota
  • Artrite psoriática
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Uncommon

  • Infecções indolentes
  • Síndrome parvoviral
  • Doença de Lyme
  • Artrite idiopática juvenil (tipo oligoarticular)
  • Febre reumática aguda
  • Sarcoidose
  • Espondiloartropatia não diferenciada
  • Lúpus eritematoso sistêmico (LES)
  • Doença de Still de início tardio
  • Artrite reativa
  • Espondilite anquilosante (EA)
  • Osteoartrite
  • Trauma
  • Hemartrose não traumática
  • Osteoartropatia hipertrófica
  • Câncer metastático intra-articular
  • Sarcoma sinovial
  • Infecções por arbovírus (por exemplo, chikungunya)
  • Doença inflamatória intestinal (colite ulcerativa e doença de Crohn)
  • Doença celíaca
  • Doença de Whipple
  • Síndrome de artrite com dermatose associada ao intestino
  • Síndrome de sinovite, pustulose, hiperostose e osteíte (SAPHO)
  • Induzida por medicamentos
  • Síndrome RS3PE ("remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting oedema")
  • Doença do Ebola
  • Tumor de células gigantes tenossinoviais difuso (antes chamado de sinovite vilonodular pigmentada difusa)
  • Tumor de células gigantes tenossinoviais localizado (antes chamado de sinovite vilonodular pigmentada localizada)
  • Osteocondromatose sinovial
  • Artropatia amiloide
  • Reumatismo fibroblástico
  • Retículo-histiocitose multicêntrica (RHM)
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Contributors

Authors

Soumya Chatterjee, MD, MS, FRCP(UK), FACP, FACR

Professor of Medicine

Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University

Rheumatology Fellowship Program Director

Staff, Department of Rheumatologic and Immunologic Diseases

Orthopedic and Rheumatologic Institute

Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland

OH

Disclosures

SC declares that he has no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Hill Gaston, MA, PhD, BM BCh, FRCP, FMedSci

Professor of Rheumatology

University of Cambridge

Clinical Director

West Anglia CLRN

Cambridge

UK

Disclosures

HG declares that he has no competing interests.

Elena Myasoedova, MD, PhD

Professor

Mayo Clinic

Rochester

MN

Disclosures

EM declares no competing interests.

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Key articles

Hazlewood GA, Aletaha D, Carmona L, et al. Algorithm for identification of undifferentiated peripheral inflammatory arthritis: a multinational collaboration through the 3e initiative. J Rheumatol Suppl. 2011 Mar;87:54-8. Abstract

Neogi T, Jansen TL, Dalbeth N, et al. 2015 Gout classification criteria: an American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism collaborative initiative. Ann Rheum Dis. 2015 Oct;74(10):1789-98.Full text  Abstract

Aletaha D, Neogi T, Silman AJ, et al. 2010 Rheumatoid arthritis classification criteria: an American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism collaborative initiative. Arthritis Rheum. 2010 Sep;62(9):2569-81.Full text  Abstract

Plagou A, Teh J, Grainger AJ, et al. Recommendations of the ESSR Arthritis Subcommittee on Ultrasonography in Inflammatory Joint Disease. Semin Musculoskelet Radiol. 2016 Nov;20(5):496-506. Abstract

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