DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS FOR MONOARTHRITIS

Infections

Crystal-induced Arthritis

     Gout

     Calcium Pyrophosphate Dihydrate Disease

     Apatitie Crystal Deposition Disease

     Oxalate or Liquid-Lipid Crystal Disease

Trauma

Osteoarthritis

Hemarthrosis

     Hemophilia

Sickle Cell Anemia

Avascular Necrosis

Osteomyelitis

Foreign Body Synovitis

Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis

Ruptured Baker's Cyst

Malignancy

Tumors

Paraneoplastic Syndrome

Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy

Systemic Disease

     Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

     Rheumatoid Arthritis

     Vasculitis

     Wegener's Granulomatosis

     Polymyositis

     Scleroderma

     Bacterial Endocarditis

     Sarcoidosis

     Hemochromatosis

     Hyperparathyroidism

     Leukemia

     Lymphoma