A deceptive MRI appearance of the medial meniscus in a 14 year old boy: a case report

BACKGROUND: A 14 year old boy with a history and clinical examination suggestive of a medial meniscal tear is presented. CASE PRESENTATION: The MRI findings suggested a horizontal cleavage tear so arthroscopy was carried out. No intra articular pathology was found at the time of surgery. CONCLUSION:...

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Autores principales: Subramanian, Padmanabhan, Willis-Owen, Charles A, Houlihan-Burne, David G
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2639558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19126238
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-16
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author Subramanian, Padmanabhan
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description BACKGROUND: A 14 year old boy with a history and clinical examination suggestive of a medial meniscal tear is presented. CASE PRESENTATION: The MRI findings suggested a horizontal cleavage tear so arthroscopy was carried out. No intra articular pathology was found at the time of surgery. CONCLUSION: The role of MRI in investigation of meniscal injuries in children is discussed and the limitations highlighted.
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spelling pubmed-26395582009-02-11 A deceptive MRI appearance of the medial meniscus in a 14 year old boy: a case report Subramanian, Padmanabhan Willis-Owen, Charles A Houlihan-Burne, David G Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: A 14 year old boy with a history and clinical examination suggestive of a medial meniscal tear is presented. CASE PRESENTATION: The MRI findings suggested a horizontal cleavage tear so arthroscopy was carried out. No intra articular pathology was found at the time of surgery. CONCLUSION: The role of MRI in investigation of meniscal injuries in children is discussed and the limitations highlighted. BioMed Central 2009-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC2639558/ /pubmed/19126238 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-16 Text en Copyright ©2009 Subramanian et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Subramanian, Padmanabhan
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A deceptive MRI appearance of the medial meniscus in a 14 year old boy: a case report
title A deceptive MRI appearance of the medial meniscus in a 14 year old boy: a case report
title_full A deceptive MRI appearance of the medial meniscus in a 14 year old boy: a case report
title_fullStr A deceptive MRI appearance of the medial meniscus in a 14 year old boy: a case report
title_full_unstemmed A deceptive MRI appearance of the medial meniscus in a 14 year old boy: a case report
title_short A deceptive MRI appearance of the medial meniscus in a 14 year old boy: a case report
title_sort deceptive mri appearance of the medial meniscus in a 14 year old boy: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2639558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19126238
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-16
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