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Anterior knee pain

Last revised by Henry Knipe ◉ on 13 Oct 2022

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Citation:

Rezaee A, Knipe H, Weerakkody Y, et al. Anterior knee pain. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 10 Mar 2025) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-38878

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-38878

Permalink:

https://radiopaedia.org/articles/38878

rID:

38878

Article created:

9 Aug 2015, Amir Rezaee

Disclosures:

At the time the article was created Amir Rezaee had no recorded disclosures.

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Last revised:

13 Oct 2022, Henry Knipe ◉

Disclosures:

At the time the article was last revised Henry Knipe had the following disclosures:

Radiopaedia Events Pty Ltd, Speaker fees (past)
Integral Diagnostics, Shareholder (ongoing)
Micro-X Ltd, Shareholder (ongoing)

These were assessed during peer review and were determined to not be relevant to the changes that were made.

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Revisions:

8 times, by 6 contributors - see full revision history and disclosures

Systems:

Musculoskeletal

Sections:

Gamuts

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Anterior knee pain - causes

Anterior knee pain is common with a variety of causes which can be divided anatomically using a layered approach¹ from superficial to deep:

Superficial soft tissues

Extensor mechanism

Intracapsular extrasynovial

Intra-articular

plica syndromes
- mediopatellar plica
- suprapatellar plica
- infrapatellar plica (ligamentum mucosum)
patellofemoral osteoarthrosis
- patellofemoral chondromalacia
inflammatory and depositional arthritis
lipoma arborescens
tenosynovial giant cell tumor
focal nodular synovitis
synovial chondromatosis

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Anterior knee pain