Calcific prepatellar bursitis
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Chronic hard painful swelling in-front front of the knee cap.
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Calcific prepatellar bursitis or housemaid's knee is a chronic condition characterized by dystrophic calcifications in a chronic inflamed prepatellar bursa, which is a thin synovial lined superficial bursa anterior and slightly inferior to the patella.
Due to repetitive kneeling pressure trauma.
Scleroderma could also cause this.
-<p><strong>Calcific prepatellar bursitis</strong> or <strong>housemaid's knee</strong> is a chronic condition characterized by dystrophic calcifications in a chronic inflamed prepatellar bursa, which is a thin synovial lined superficial bursa anterior and slightly inferior to the patella.</p><p>Due to repetitive kneeling pressure trauma.</p><p>Scleroderma could also cause this.</p>- +<p><strong>Calcific prepatellar bursitis</strong> or <a title="Housemaid's knee" href="/articles/prepatellar-bursitis">housemaid's knee</a> is a chronic condition characterized by dystrophic calcifications in a chronic inflamed prepatellar bursa, which is a thin synovial lined superficial bursa anterior and slightly inferior to the patella.</p><p>Due to repetitive kneeling pressure trauma.</p><p>Scleroderma could also cause this.</p>
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