ANTERIOR KNEE DDX
Patellar tendon
• Tendinopathy
• Rupture
• Osgood Schlatter’s disease
• Sindig Larsen’s disease
Quadriceps tendon
• Tendinopathy
• Rupture
Patella
• Chondromalacia
• Patello femoral osteoarthritis
• Stress fracture
• Frank fracture
• Painful bipartite patella
• Osteochondritis patella/femoral groove
• Transient patellar dislocation
• Chronic patellar maltracking
Hoffa’s fat pad
• Hoffa’s ganglion
• Synovitis
• PVNS
• Osteochondromatosis
• Hoffa’s impingement syndrome
• Synovial haemangioma
• Gout
• Chondroma
• Sarcoma
Miscellaneous
• Anterior meniscal tear
• Meniscal cyst
• Neuroma of infrapatellar nerve
• Pre/infra-patellar bursitis