Knee malalignment is associated with an increased risk for incident and enlarging bone marrow lesions in the more loaded compartments: The MOST study

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1227-1233

  Hayashi, D ^a   Englund, M ^a,b   Roemer, F W ^a,c   Niu, J ^a   Sharma, L ^d   Felson, D T ^a   Crema, M D ^a,e   Marra, M D ^a   Segal, N A ^f   Lewis, C E ^g   Nevitt, M C ^h   Guermazi, A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KLINIKUM AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Hospital do Coracao HCor and Teleimagem   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^g University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone marrow lesion; Knee; Malalignment; MRI; Osteoarthritis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BONE MARROW DISEASE; CARTILAGE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEMUR CONDYLE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KNEE MENISCUS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIBIA; VALGUS KNEE; VARUS KNEE;

AGED; BONE MALALIGNMENT; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW DISEASES; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; COXA VALGA; COXA VARA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENISCI, TIBIAL; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84866447669     PISSN: 10634584     EISSN: 15229653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2012.07.020     Document Type: Article

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