MRI has become the radiologic procedure of choice for the diagnosis of meniscal tears. Recently SPECT also has been used for assessment of knee pathologies and has been documented to have a higher ...

Patients were considered ineligible if they had clinical or MRI evidence of structural concomitant injuries that necessitated surgical intervention (eg, an unstable bucket-handle meniscal tear) or a ...

The MRI is valuable for confirming the presence of a suspected meniscal cyst and identifying any concurrent meniscal tear (Figure 16). Dr. Fan and Dr. Ryu are orthopaedists in private practice in ...

Interim results from a randomized trial show that middle-aged patients with knee pain and suspected meniscal tears can ...

Patients were aged 18 to 65 years (mean 31.3, SD 10.5), 60% male sex (n=100). We evaluated the presence and location of meniscal tears by baseline MRI. We analysed and compared how many patients per ...