1. Figure 1 Imaging of a painful knee using radiography and MRI
Figure 1 | Imaging of a painful knee using radiography and MRI. In a 77-year-old male with pain for the past 5 weeks, anteroposterior radiograph of the left knee (part a) showed normal tibiofemoral joints, whereas fat-suppressed intermediate-weighted coronal MRI (part b) and sagittal MRI (part c) demonstrated a subchondral insufficiency fracture of the medial femoral condyle (arrow) with extensive surrounding bone marrow oedema. Coronal MRI (part b) also showed medial meniscal extrusion and a characteristic pattern of intense soft-tissue oedema (arrowheads). The sagittal MRI (part c) demonstrated a complex tear of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus (arrowheads) and a large Baker's cyst (*).
Guermazi, A. (2017) You can rely on radiography when managing OA, but not too much!
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