Differential Diagnosis for Chronic Back Pain
BACK PAIN CHRONIC, Chronic back pain (disorder), Chronic back pain (finding), Pain back chronic (less)
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Trauma Causes
- Sprain
- Neck sprain/whiplash injury
- Vertebral compression fx/osteoporotic
- Back strain, musculotendonous/Lumbar
- Back trauma
- Neck trauma
- Pancreas, injury to
- Hip trauma/sprain
- Sacroiliac strain
- Upper back sprain/strain
- Upper back strain/ligamentous
- Kidney contusion
- Kidney fracture, traumatic
- Kidney subcapsular rupture
- Sacrum fracture
- Spinal cord concussion, cauda equina
- Lumbar dural tear
- Multifidus triangle syndrome
- Obturator muscle strain/bursitis
- Quadratus lumborum syndrome
- Sacroiliac Diastasis/Injury
Electromagnetic, Physics, trauma, Radiation Causes
Iatrogenic, Self Induced Disorders
Surgical, Procedure Complication
Infectious Disorders (Specific Agent)
- CFS/Fibromyalgia/Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Meningitis, tuberculosis
- Plague meningitis
- Potts fracture
- Brucellosis
- Meningitis, fungal
- Post-shigella arthritis
- Potts paraplegia/Epidural cold abscess
- Salmonella osteomyelitis/vertebral
- Yersinia arthritis
- Brucella osteomyelitis of spine
- Chronic malaria
- Pelvic actinomycosis
- Pott's disease (spinal tuberculosis)
- Psoas cold abscess/Tuberculous
- Spine, tuberculosis
- Syphilitic osteomyelitis of spine
- Tuberculous spondylitis/vertebral
- Typhoid osteomyelitis of spine
Infected organ, Abscesses
Granulomatous, Inflammatory Disorders
Neoplastic Disorders
- Metastatic bone disease
- Metastatic malignancy (cancer)
- Adenocarcinoma, metast. prostate
- Adenocarcinoma, prostate
- Adenocarcinoma, uterus
- Hodgkin's disease
- Lymphomas
- Ovarian adenoma
- Ovarian Cancer/Carcinoma
- Ovarian neoplasm
- Prostate cancer/bone metastasis
- Uterine fibroid/leiomyomas
- Lumbar plexus tumor/metastasis
- Caudal spinal cord tumor
- Lumbar spinal cord tumor
- Metastasis to spinal cord
- Tumor of spinal canal
- Adenocarcinoma, pancreatic
- Carcinoma, adrenal cortex
- Carcinoma, renal cell
- Dorsal root/sensory neuropathy/paraneop
- Intraspinal tumor
- Kidney invasion, metastatic tumor
- Kidney pelvis transitional carcinoma
- Kidney sarcoma/Fibrosarcoma
- Metastasis to adrenal glands
- Multiple myeloma
- Ovarian teratocarcinoma
- Ovary, carcinoma mucocellulare
- Ovary, cystadenocarcinoma, mucinous
- Pelvic tumor
- Retroperitoneal lymphoma
- Retroperitoneal sarcoma
- Retroperitoneal tumor
- Sacrococcygeal tumor
- Spinal cord, ependymoma
- Kidney leiomyosarcoma
- Retroperitoneal lymph node/metastasis
- Spinal Meningioma
Allergic, Collagen, Auto-Immune Disorders
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Ulcerative colitis arthritis
- Polyarthritis syndrome
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Ulcerative colitis
- Ankylosing spondylitis (Marie-Strumple)
- Arthritis of inflammatory bowel disease
- Arthropathy, reactive (post-infectious)
- Fibromyositis/Fibromyalgia syndrome
- Juvenile ankylosing spondylitis
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Reiters Syndrome
- Retroperitoneal fibrosis
- Sacroiliac/Iliitis arthritis
- Spondylitis, undifferentiated
- Spondyloarthropathy syndrome
- Renal arteritis
Metabolic, Storage Disorders
Deficiency Disorders
Congenital, Developmental Disorders
Hereditary, Familial, Genetic Disorders
Usage, Degenerative, Necrosis, Age Related Disorders
Relational, Mental, Psychiatric Disorders
Anatomic, Foreign Body, Structural Disorders
- Placenta abruptio
- Cholelithiasis
- Epidural hematoma
- Hydronephrosis
- Lumbar herniated disk syndrome
- Pancreatic duct obstruction
- Renal colic
- Kidney stone in renal pelvis
- Procidentia, uterine
- Spondylosis, cervical
- Tight hamstrings
- Fistula, pancreatic
- Hip/slipped capital epiphysis
- Leaking pancreatic pseudocyst
- Pancreatic duct/stone
- Pneumothorax
- Pyriformis muscle/entrapment syndrome
- Spinal cord compression
- Hematoma/lumbosacral plexus
- Ilioinguinal entrapment neuropathy
- Renal hematoma
- Retroperitoneal hematoma
- Spinal cord hematoma, epidural
- Calcific pancreatitis
- Hip contracture
- Kyphoscoliosis
- Leg length difference
- Low back derangement
- Lumbar Spinal stenosis
- Lumbosacral instability syndrome
- Pancreatic pseudocyst
- Pelvic adhesions
- Pelvic tilt
- Prostate calculus
- Spondylosis, lumbar
- Lumbar hernia
- Tarlov perineural sacral cyst
Arteriosclerotic, Vascular, Venous Disorders
Functional, Physiologic Variant Disorders
Vegetative, Autonomic, Endocrine Disorders
Reference to Organ System
- Sciatic neuropathy
- Endometriosis
- Pleurisy/pleuritis secondary
- Renal failure, acute
- Sciatica
- Arthritis
- Lumbar spine disorder
- Retroperitoneal space disorder
- Spinal cord disorders
- Spinal cord lesion
- Cervical radiculitis
- Fibrositis
- Lumbosacral plexus disorder
- Osteoporosis/osteopenia
- Radicular neuropathy
- Cauda equina syndrome
- Hip arthritis
- Thoracic nerve root disease
- Bursitis, gluteus/buttock
- Dorsal radiculitis
- Ischial bursitis
- Lumbosacral arthritis/spondylitis
- Sacral radiculopathy
- Trapezius fibromyositis
- Pelvis, osteomalacic
- Psoas myositis-fibrosis
- Spine, hyperostosis, ankylosing
- Lumbar Radiculopathy
Idiopathic, Unclassified Disorders
Pathophysiologic
Heirarchical Major Groups
Drugs
Poisoning (Specific Agent)
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