The MRI appearance of cystic lesions around the knee

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 187-209

  McCarthy, Catherine L ^a   McNally, Eugene G ^a  

^a NUFFIELD ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bursa; Cysts; Ganglia; Knee; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ABSCESS; ANEURYSM; ARTHROPATHY; BENIGN TUMOR; BONE CYST; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; BURSITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMUR; FIBULA; GANGLION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAOSSEOUS GANGLION; KNEE DISEASE; KNEE LIGAMENT; KNEE MENISCUS RUPTURE; KNEE SURGERY; LIGAMENT; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATELLA; PERIOSTEUM; PERONEUS NERVE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; POPLITEAL CYST; POPLITEAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; TIBIA; VARICOSIS;

BONE CYSTS; BURSA, SYNOVIAL; BURSITIS; CYSTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GANGLION CYSTS; HUMANS; KNEE; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENISCI, TIBIAL; POPLITEAL CYST; SYNOVIAL CYST;

EID: 1842741313     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-003-0741-y     Document Type: Review

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