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Descriptor English: Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome
Descriptor Spanish: Síndrome de Dolor Patelofemoral
Descriptor síndrome de dolor patelofemoral
Entry term(s) dolor patelofemoral
síndrome de dolor femoropatelar
síndrome de dolor femororrotuliano
síndrome de dolor rotulofemoral
síndrome del dolor patelofemoral
síndrome doloroso femoropatelar
síndrome doloroso femororrotuliano
síndrome doloroso patelofemoral
Scope note: Síndrome caracterizado por DOLOR retrorrotuliano o perirrotuliano a consecuencia de cambios físicos y bioquímicos en la articulación fémoropatelar. El dolor es más intenso al subir o bajar escaleras, en cuclillas o al sentarse con las rodillas flexionadas. No hay consenso sobre su etiología y tratamiento. El síndrome se confunde a menudo (o se acompaña) con la CONDROMALACIA ROTULIANA, que es una afección patológica del CARTÍLAGO y no un síndrome.
Descriptor Portuguese: Síndrome da Dor Patelofemoral
Descriptor French: Syndrome fémoro-patellaire
Entry term(s): Anterior Knee Pain Syndrome
Pain Syndrome, Patellofemoral
Pain, Patellofemoral
Patellofemoral Pain
Patellofemoral Pains
Patellofemoral Syndrome
Tree number(s): C05.550.700
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D046788
Scope note: A syndrome characterized by retropatellar or peripatellar PAIN resulting from physical and biochemical changes in the patellofemoral joint. The pain is most prominent when ascending or descending stairs, squatting, or sitting with flexed knees. There is a lack of consensus on the etiology and treatment. The syndrome is often confused with (or accompanied by) CHONDROMALACIA PATELLAE, the latter describing a pathological condition of the CARTILAGE and not a syndrome.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Knee Joint (1982-2004)
Syndrome (1984-2004)
Public MeSH Note: 2005
History Note: 2005
Related: Chondromalacia Patellae MeSH
DeCS ID: 38611
Unique ID: D046788
NLM Classification: WE 870
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2005/01/01
Date of Entry: 2004/07/07
Revision Date: 2020/01/16
Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome - Preferred
Concept UI M0455459
Scope note A syndrome characterized by retropatellar or peripatellar PAIN resulting from physical and biochemical changes in the patellofemoral joint. The pain is most prominent when ascending or descending stairs, squatting, or sitting with flexed knees. There is a lack of consensus on the etiology and treatment. The syndrome is often confused with (or accompanied by) CHONDROMALACIA PATELLAE, the latter describing a pathological condition of the CARTILAGE and not a syndrome.
Preferred term Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome
Entry term(s) Anterior Knee Pain Syndrome
Pain Syndrome, Patellofemoral
Patellofemoral Syndrome
Patellofemoral Pain - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000677198
Preferred term Patellofemoral Pain
Entry term(s) Pain, Patellofemoral
Patellofemoral Pains



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