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Shoulder Pain: Excerpt from A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis


Fracture
Contusion
Acromial-clavicular joint separation or injuries
Rotator cuff tendinitis or impingement syndrome
Bursitis
Bicipital tendinitis (long head)
Referred pain
   Diaphragmatic irritation
       Biliary disease
       Myocardial infarction
       Blood or gas in peritoneal or pleural cavity
       Subphrenic abscess
       Splenic trauma
       Neoplasm
       Lower lobe pleuropulmonary inflammatory disease
   Apical lung cancer (Pancoast's syndrome)
   Cervical radiculopathy and brachial neuritis
   Angina pectoris or myocardial infarction, or both
Osteoarthritis
Infectious arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis
Crystalline arthritis
Arthritis associated with collagen-vascular disease
Rupture of rotator cuff
Anterior and posterior shoulder instability
Shoulder-hand syndrome
Neoplasm, primary or metastatic
Local arterial, venous, or lymphatic occlusion
Adhesive capsulitis
Thoracic outlet syndromes
   Cervical and first-rib syndromes, scalenus anterior
syndrome
   Hyperabduction syndrome
   Costoclavicular syndrome
Myalgias and arthralgias fibrositis syndromes
Psychogenic pain
Sleep dysesthesias
Congenital or developmental abnormalities
Postural

References


1. Thornhill T: The Painful Shoulder, p. 491. See Bibliography, 1.
2. Canoso, pp. 238–253. See Bibliography, 3.
3. Neviaser RJ (ed): Management of Shoulder Problems. Orthop Clin North Am 18(3):373–444, 1987.

Book Source Details

  • Book Title: A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis
  • Author(s): Stephen N. Adler, Dianne B. Gasbarra
  • Year of Publication: 1999
  • Copyright Details: A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis, Copyright © 1999 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

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Title: A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis
Authors: Stephen N. Adler, Dianne B. Gasbarra
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Copyright: 1999
ISBN: 0-78171-943-7

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