popliteal cyst
MONDO:0008288Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names popliteal cyst yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A synovial cyst located in the back of the knee, in the popliteal space arising from the semimembranous bursa or the knee joint.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0008288), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
1 feature
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.
- Joint swellingHPOHP:0001386
Where it sits
- A kind of