Glossary for Knee swelling

Medical terms related to Knee swelling or mentioned in this section include:

• Ankle swelling: Ankle swelling often from injury or fluid retention.
• Ansell-Bywaters-Elderking syndrome: A rare familial syndrome characterized mainly by mental retardation, rash, eye inflammation and joint disease.
• Arthritis: A condition which is characterized by the inflammation of a joint
• Bursitis: inflammation of one or more bursae (small sacs) of synovial fluid in the body.
• Common Variable Immunodeficiency: An immunodeficiency disorder involving low blood gamma globulin levels which results in an increased susceptibility to infections. The condition may be inherited or can be caused by certain drugs (levamisole, hydantoin and carbamazepine).
• Erythema nodosum: Allergic skin condition usually on the legs
• Foot swelling: Swelling of one or both feet
• Gout: Painful joints, most commonly the big toe.
• Iliotibial Band Syndrome: Knee inflammation usually from prolonged overuse
• Infection: Infections as a symptom.
• Jaffe-Lichtenstein-Sutro syndrome: A rare disorder characterized by pain and limited movement in one or more large joints such as the knee.
• Joint injury - knee: An injury to the knee which is the joint between the upper and lower leg. Severity of symptoms varies depending on the type and severity of the injury and often the primary symptom is pain. A knee injury can involve damage to the bones, ligaments or other tissues of the joint. The injury may be acute (e.g. trauma) or chronic (e.g. overuse).
• Joint pain: Pain affecting the joints
• Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis: Chronic arthritis affecting children and teens
• Knee conditions: Any condition that affects the knee
• Knee injury: Any injury that occurs to the knee
• Knee pain: Pain in or around the knee joint
• Knee sprain: Damage to ligaments in the knee.
• Knee swelling in children:
• Knee symptoms: Symptoms affecting the knee
• Leg swelling: Swelling of one or both legs
• Leg symptoms: Symptoms affecting the leg
• Limb symptoms: Symptoms affecting the limbs
• Meniscus injury: Knee damage often from trauma or injury
• Nephrotic syndrome: A condition involving excess loss of protein in the urine, reduced albumin levels in the blood and swelling.
• Osgood-Schlatter Disease: A condition where the bony lump below the knee becomes inflamed resulting in swelling, pain and tenderness.
• Plica Syndrome: Knee inflammation usually triggered by overuse or injury.
• Pseudogout: A condition which is characterized by an acute inflammatory arthropathy caused by calcium pyrophosphate crystals
• Rheumatoid arthritis: An autoimmune inflammatory condition which primarily affects the joints
• Seronegative Arthritis: Classification given to the group of joint conditions with similar features to rheumatoid arthritis, but affecting different joints and lacking the specific autoantibodies used to identify rheumatoid arthritis
• Singh-Williams-McAlister, syndrome: A rare syndrome characterized mainly by the resorption of certain bones (ankles, knees and wrists). Swelling an pain also occur in the affected bones.
• Stiff knee: Stiffness of the knee joint
• Swelling symptoms: Symptoms causing swelling or enlargement.
• Talo-patello-scaphoid osteolysis, synovitis, and short fourth metacarpals: A rare condition characterized mainly by the loss of bone in the knee, ankle and wrist joints.
• Wallenberg's Syndrome: A rare neurological condition caused by a stroke (involving the cerebellar artery) and resulting in symptoms such as facial paralysis or weakness on one side of body.

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