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What Causes Severe Pain In Inner Knee Along With Swollen Vein?
Question: During this week I have been feeling a pain on the back of my knee, i was palping on the zone and i can feel the vein (not sure if it is the vein) swollen.
Brief Answer:
Possible Baker's cyst
Detailed Answer:
Good evening. My name is Dr. Saghafi and I am from the XXXXXXX OH region of the world.
You may very well be describing something referred to as a BAKER'S CYST. This is a fluid filled entity which can sometimes be bulging, hard, and painful....or it could be a more subtle type of mass that develops slowly over time which many people mistake early on as a tendon, ligament, or artery/vein.
Check out this link and see if it correlates at all to what you're feeling in terms of the symptoms behind your knee and what you're palpating and interpreting as a vein.
Veins are really not able to be felt since they tend to collapse unless they are located very superficially and the covered over by significant layers of muscle as is the femoral and popliteal veins. It is possible that there could be lymph nodes that are enlarged and perhaps that is what you are feeling....but...a more likely scenario in my opinion is the Baker's cyst. It is very easy to diagnose using Ultrasound or even a CT scan. It is more common in women and can spontaneously rupture beyond the 4th or 5th decade of life. It is usually a sign of an arthritic, gouty, or meniscal tear type of problem.
Treatment can be conservative or surgical depending upon the severity of the cyst, the complications that its rupture causes for the individual, and how readily it functions with the patient's daily routines. The following link gives you some good oversight and views on the topic of BAKER'S CYST.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/bakers-cyst/multimedia/bakers-cyst/img-0000
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Possible Baker's cyst
Detailed Answer:
Good evening. My name is Dr. Saghafi and I am from the XXXXXXX OH region of the world.
You may very well be describing something referred to as a BAKER'S CYST. This is a fluid filled entity which can sometimes be bulging, hard, and painful....or it could be a more subtle type of mass that develops slowly over time which many people mistake early on as a tendon, ligament, or artery/vein.
Check out this link and see if it correlates at all to what you're feeling in terms of the symptoms behind your knee and what you're palpating and interpreting as a vein.
Veins are really not able to be felt since they tend to collapse unless they are located very superficially and the covered over by significant layers of muscle as is the femoral and popliteal veins. It is possible that there could be lymph nodes that are enlarged and perhaps that is what you are feeling....but...a more likely scenario in my opinion is the Baker's cyst. It is very easy to diagnose using Ultrasound or even a CT scan. It is more common in women and can spontaneously rupture beyond the 4th or 5th decade of life. It is usually a sign of an arthritic, gouty, or meniscal tear type of problem.
Treatment can be conservative or surgical depending upon the severity of the cyst, the complications that its rupture causes for the individual, and how readily it functions with the patient's daily routines. The following link gives you some good oversight and views on the topic of BAKER'S CYST.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/bakers-cyst/multimedia/bakers-cyst/img-0000
I hope this answer satisfactorily addresses your interesting question. If so, may I ask your favor of a HIGH STAR RATING with some written feedback.
Also, if there are no other questions or comments, can I ask that you CLOSE THE QUERY on your end so this question can be transacted and archived for further reference by colleagues as necessary?
Please direct more comments and questions to me in the future at:
bit.ly/drdariushsaghafi and I would be honored to answer you very quickly and continue this interesting discussion.
Please keep me informed as to the outcome of your situation.
All the best.
The query has required a total of 31 minutes of physician specific time to read, research, and compile a return envoy to the patient.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
Dr. Saghafi,
Appreciate your feedback. I would like to go perform the ultrasound to follow-up on potential diagnostic and also follow-up with treatment. Do i need to go to a neurologist or my primary doctor to indicate me the ultrasound examination?
Yours sincerely,
XXX
I forgot to mention that the pain go from time to time down to my foot, on the left side of ankle, around the bone on the side. Another important comment is that i feel discomfort if i bend my leg. Need to keep it straight or on upper level to feel better comfort
Appreciate your feedback. I would like to go perform the ultrasound to follow-up on potential diagnostic and also follow-up with treatment. Do i need to go to a neurologist or my primary doctor to indicate me the ultrasound examination?
Yours sincerely,
XXX
I forgot to mention that the pain go from time to time down to my foot, on the left side of ankle, around the bone on the side. Another important comment is that i feel discomfort if i bend my leg. Need to keep it straight or on upper level to feel better comfort
Brief Answer:
Read the article at the link I sent you and you may look up other sites
Detailed Answer:
Please feel free to re-read the article link I sent you as well as looking up other resources but what you're describing is virtually the same symptoms people experience who have Baker's cysts in the popliteal fossa (behind the need).
If pain is running into the lower leg and even the foot then, you may be suffering from a ruptured Baker's cyst.....
I hope this answer satisfactorily addresses your interesting question. If so, may I ask your favor of a HIGH STAR RATING with some written feedback.
Also, if there are no other questions or comments, can I ask that you CLOSE THE QUERY on your end so this question can be transacted and archived for further reference by colleagues as necessary?
Please direct more comments and questions to me in the future at:
bit.ly/drdariushsaghafi and I would be honored to answer you very quickly and continue this interesting discussion.
Please keep me informed as to the outcome of your situation.
All the best.
The query has required a total of 30 minutes of physician specific time to read, research, and compile a return envoy to the patient.
Read the article at the link I sent you and you may look up other sites
Detailed Answer:
Please feel free to re-read the article link I sent you as well as looking up other resources but what you're describing is virtually the same symptoms people experience who have Baker's cysts in the popliteal fossa (behind the need).
If pain is running into the lower leg and even the foot then, you may be suffering from a ruptured Baker's cyst.....
I hope this answer satisfactorily addresses your interesting question. If so, may I ask your favor of a HIGH STAR RATING with some written feedback.
Also, if there are no other questions or comments, can I ask that you CLOSE THE QUERY on your end so this question can be transacted and archived for further reference by colleagues as necessary?
Please direct more comments and questions to me in the future at:
bit.ly/drdariushsaghafi and I would be honored to answer you very quickly and continue this interesting discussion.
Please keep me informed as to the outcome of your situation.
All the best.
The query has required a total of 30 minutes of physician specific time to read, research, and compile a return envoy to the patient.
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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