Summary
Differentials
Common
- Artrite séptica não gonocócica
- Artrite gonocócica
- Artrite reumatoide
- Gota
- Pseudogota
- Artrite psoriática
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)
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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References
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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