Lipoma arborescens: An unusual cause of swelling of the knee

We report a patient with a lipoma arborescens in the knee, a chance finding discovered on MRI. This is an unusual cause of swelling of the knee joint; if this condition is present, it is almost always located in the suprapatellar pouch. In this case, the lipoma arborescens was found in the popliteal...

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Autores principales: Spaans, A.J., Turkenburg, J.L., Wagenmakers, R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4900204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27330617
http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v8i1.793
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Sumario:We report a patient with a lipoma arborescens in the knee, a chance finding discovered on MRI. This is an unusual cause of swelling of the knee joint; if this condition is present, it is almost always located in the suprapatellar pouch. In this case, the lipoma arborescens was found in the popliteal space.

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