MRI diagnosis of knee meniscus injury.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9 MRI diagnosis of knee meniscus injury Of: Wong Chau Ouyang Xun Hu Yuming Luo can be any more [Abstract] Objective To investigate the performance of the knee meniscus MRI. Materials and Methods were analyzed retrospectively in January 2005 to September 2007 80 patients the MRI manifestations of knee meniscus injury, according to Stoller [1] method four points. The results of 80 cases in 160 146 meniscal injury, where 0 level signal 14, I-level damage signal 24, II-level damage signal 84, III-level damage signal 38. Conclusions MRI can clearly Show meniscus shape, edge, size and internal signal changes, as a reliable basis for clinical treatment has important clinical significance, is the diagnosis of meniscus injury best noninvasive method. [Keywords:] meniscus, MRI diagnosis Knee pain and dysfunction of the most common cause is the inside and (or lateral meniscus tear, meniscus tear resulting from the pain, may, by a half-board 1 / 3 of the neurovascular bundle conduction, or enter the meniscus tear synovial nerve conduction dominated, the patient can also be expressed as “locking” the symptoms [2], imaging is the determination of site of injury, damage judgments, the development of treatment programs is very important. The traditional X-ray films and CT scans can not show the meniscus, X ray and CT arthrography arthrography, although showing the meniscus, but are invasive examination, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) due to high tissue resolution, can be multi-directional, any surface imaging, noninvasive and is the best and preferred meniscus noninvasive method [1 7], this retrospective analysis of 80 cases of meniscus MRI. 1 Data and methods 1.1 Clinical data: A retrospective analysis in January 2005 to September 2007 in our hospital 80 patients diagnosed as cases of meniscus injury, Arthroscopic surgery 23 .80 62 cases of male patients, 18 females, aged 35 65 years old, average 48.5 years old. 26 left knee, right k