Arthritis

• Arthritis is a term generally used to refer to inflammatory joint disease. Pain, swelling, stiffness and redness of the skin around the joint are common with arthritis.
  
  

Synovial Sarcomas - Tumors of the Joints

• Synoviomas are malignant tumors that occur in the tissues around the joints, such as the capsule, the tendon shafts, the fasciae, the bursae, and the inter-muscular septa or divisions, and rarely within the joint proper. Synoviomas normally occur in adolescence and normally in the region of the leg.
  
  

Bursitis

• Bursitis is inflammation of the lubricating sac called synovial bursa, located between the joint and the tendons, bones and muscles.
  
  

Rheumatic fever

• Rheumatic fever is characterized by joint pain or swelling of the wrists, elbows, knees or ankles, and can result in permanent heart damage.
  
  

Aseptic necrosis

• Aseptic necrosis is a bone death that is caused by poor blood supply and is responsible for several joint diseases. It is most common in the knee, hip and shoulder, causing joint pain that becomes severe if the bone collapses.
  
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Neurogenic arthropathy

• Neurogenic arthropathy is a severe degenerative disease that is related to nerve lesions that develop when the sensory mechanisms of joints are impaired.