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Arthrocentesis Updated 4/2010

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BASICS

  • Description
  • Etiology

DIAGNOSIS

  • Signs and Symptoms
  • Tests
  • Differential Diagnosis

TREATMENT

  • General Measures
  • Surgery

Ongoing Care

  • Complications
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BASICS
Description

Aspiration of synovial joints is performed for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.

Etiology
  • Causes of joint effusions:
    • Infection
    • Crystalline arthropathies
    • Hemophilia
    • Autoimmune arthropathies
    • Trauma
    • PVNS

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Fig. 1. Arthrocentesis of the knee is most easily done from the lateral side, under the patella.
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