Large Intra-Articular Anterior Cruciate Ligament Ganglion Cyst, Presenting with Inability to Flex the Knee

A 41-year-old female presented with a 3-month history of gradually worsening anterior knee pain, swelling and inability to flex the knee. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a large intra-articular cystic swelling anterior to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), extending into the Hoffa'...

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Autores principales: Sloane, Jake, Gulati, Vivek, Penna, Sreeram, Pastides, Philip, Baghla, Davinder Paul Singh
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3025369/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21274442
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/705919
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author Sloane, Jake
Gulati, Vivek
Penna, Sreeram
Pastides, Philip
Baghla, Davinder Paul Singh
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description A 41-year-old female presented with a 3-month history of gradually worsening anterior knee pain, swelling and inability to flex the knee. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a large intra-articular cystic swelling anterior to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), extending into the Hoffa's infrapatellar fat pad. Following manipulation under anaesthesia and arthroscopic debridement of the cyst, the patient's symptoms were relieved with restoration of normal knee motion. ACL ganglion cysts are uncommon intra-articular pathological entities, which are usually asymptomatic and diagnosed incidentally by MRI. This is the first reported case of an ACL cyst being so large as to cause a mechanical block to knee flexion.
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spelling pubmed-30253692011-01-27 Large Intra-Articular Anterior Cruciate Ligament Ganglion Cyst, Presenting with Inability to Flex the Knee Sloane, Jake Gulati, Vivek Penna, Sreeram Pastides, Philip Baghla, Davinder Paul Singh Case Rep Med Case Report A 41-year-old female presented with a 3-month history of gradually worsening anterior knee pain, swelling and inability to flex the knee. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a large intra-articular cystic swelling anterior to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), extending into the Hoffa's infrapatellar fat pad. Following manipulation under anaesthesia and arthroscopic debridement of the cyst, the patient's symptoms were relieved with restoration of normal knee motion. ACL ganglion cysts are uncommon intra-articular pathological entities, which are usually asymptomatic and diagnosed incidentally by MRI. This is the first reported case of an ACL cyst being so large as to cause a mechanical block to knee flexion. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2011-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3025369/ /pubmed/21274442 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/705919 Text en Copyright © 2010 Jake Sloane et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pastides, Philip
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title_short Large Intra-Articular Anterior Cruciate Ligament Ganglion Cyst, Presenting with Inability to Flex the Knee
title_sort large intra-articular anterior cruciate ligament ganglion cyst, presenting with inability to flex the knee
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/705919
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