Anterior knee pain

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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

fat pad impingement syndromes
- infrapatella fat pad impingement
- quadriceps fat pad impingement
para-articular chondroma of the infrapatellar fat pad
infrapatella fat pad herniation
cyclops lesion
ganglion / parameniscal cyst
iliotibial band friction syndrome

Intra-articular

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

~~-<li>quadriceps tendinosis / partial tear</li>~~
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+<a title="Quadriceps tendinosis" href="/articles/quadriceps-tendinopathy">quadriceps tendinosis</a> / partial tear</li>
~~-<li>patellar tendinosis / partial tear</li>~~
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+<a title="patellar tendinosis" href="/articles/patellar-tendinosis">patellar tendinosis</a> / partial tear</li>

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