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63F 2 weeks after knee twisting injury with pop MRI, question about AMRI

I realize I didn’t attach the reference I found (now that Diego Lemos just shared it with me) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6925612/ They have a section focusing on AMRI….curiously, the reference that focuses on meniscal root tear only mention posterior Lateral meniscal root tear (in the title) The body of the discussion does not provide any details, just […]

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Recurrent sports injury 16M 8 months after ACL graft MRI Thoughts?

16M one week after American football injury, 8 months after ACL reconstruction There are posterior tibial contusions (not shown), an inferior patellar contusion, but no femoral contusion—even though I don’t see a fluid signal defect, the graft looks lax and I think the yellow arrow points to a tear at the mid-distal graft My question

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Post Op Hip pain 53F surgery 6 months ago XR What do you think?

Tatiane Cantarelli came through quickly with an explanation Management of femoral head fracture by Ganz surgical dislocation of the hiphttps://jorthoptraumatol.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s10195-022-00643-w It makes better sense, the FH is a fracture fixation…though it doesn’t look terribly fixed in my case I have no way of knowing if there was pre-op DJD….at this point, fracture healing seems irrelevant

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40M knee pain after injury 5 months ago MRI Please Explain

There is a chronic meniscal ossicle embedded in the stump of the posterior horn medial meniscal root (red arrow) which is chronically avulsed (black arrow) He got the MRI because he’s symptomatic, obviously, but there is no medial compartment cartilage thinning and no meniscal body extrusion—which is difficult to explain…..can you? What’s providing stability here?

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Knee Xray

Metallic debris after GSW I see this frequently in my practice but I could find any case in my files. This case is from NEJM. 14 years apart This is an otherwise healthy 40 year old machinist who presents with knee pain after injury. His hip xray the same day was normal. Any thoughts on

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