The role of meniscal root pathology and radial meniscal tear in medial meniscal extrusion

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 569-574

  Lerer, D B ^a   Umans, Hilary R ^b   Xu, M X ^a   Jones, M H ^a  

^a MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JACOBI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Knee; Magnetic resonance; Medial meniscal extrusion; Medial meniscal root; Radial tear

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT EFFUSION; KNEE MENISCUS RUPTURE; KNEE PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPHYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARTILAGE DISEASES; DISLOCATIONS; EXOSTOSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENISCI, TIBIAL; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 6344255138     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-004-0761-2     Document Type: Article

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