Medial posterior meniscal root tears are associated with development or worsening of medial tibiofemoral cartilage damage: The multicenter osteoarthritis study

Radiology

Volumn 268, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 814-821

  Guermazi, Ali ^a   Hayashi, Daichi ^a   Jarraya, Mohamed ^a   Roemer, Frank W ^a,f   Zhang, Yuqing ^a   Niu, Jingbo ^a   Crema, Michel D ^a,g   Englund, Martin ^b   Lynch, John A ^c   Nevitt, Michael C ^c   Torner, James C ^d   Lewis, Cora E ^e   Felson, David T ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e and Clinical Center   (United States)

^f KLINIKUM AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^g HCor   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DORSAL ROOT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KNEE MENISCUS RUPTURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAL POSTERIOR MENISCAL ROOT TEAR; MEDIAL TIBIOFEMORAL CARTILAGE FRACTURE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARD;

AGED; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, CARTILAGE; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENISCI, TIBIAL; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883156405     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.13122544     Document Type: Article

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