title: [Tendinitis of the knee].
abstract: The diagnostic criteria for tendinitis of the knee are: (1) strict localization of the pain in the whole length of the tendon from its body to its end; (2) recrudescence of pain during movements that stretch or rub the tendon, and (3) positive local anaesthesia test if needed. Only this approach makes it possible not to miss a tendinitis of the extensor system in a so-called femoro-patellar syndrome, or to misdiagnose a tendinitis of the sartorius, gracilis and semitendinosus muscles when confronted with an osteoarticular pathology of the medial femoro-tibial compartment.
authors.affiliation: Clinique de rhumatologie, hôpital Cochin, Paris.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Revel
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mayoux-Benhamou
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000503:physiopathology; D010146:Pain; D052256:Tendinopathy / Q000175:diagnosis*
vernacular_title: Les tendinites du genou.