Crepitation
Classification according to ICD-10 | |
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M23.8 | Other internal damage to the knee joint |
M24.8 | Other specified joint damage, not elsewhere classified |
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019) |
Crepitation ( Latin " crepitatio " for "rattle", "crunch") is a medical name for
- the painful, audible and palpable rubbing of fracture parts against each other (as a sure sign of fracture ),
- is not necessarily painful, but audible and tactile joint crunch (eg. a snap of tendon, ligament or tissue portions over a bony prominence or a rubbing of the joint partners in advanced osteoarthritis ),
- the auscultatory crackling or crackling rattle in the initial and final stages of pneumonia ,
- the crunching (also called "snowball crunch" hereinafter) sound on touching ( palpation ) of Hautemphysems .
literature
- Pschyrembel clinical dictionary . 261st edition, Walter de Gruyter, 2007. ISBN 978-3110185348 .