Arthrographic pseudotear of the anterior horn of the lateral meniscus caused by a displaced meniscal fragment.
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J Malghem
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Epiphyseal impaction as a cause of severe osteoarticular pain of lower limbs after renal transplantation.
A syndrome of severe osteoarticular pain of lower limbs occurring early after renal transplantation (TP) has been recently identified. We describe its prevalence, clinical presentation and outcome. Symptomatic patients have been studied with conventional X-rays, magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, and 99mTechnetium scintigrams of the painful areas. Among 86 patients transplanted over a two-year period, nine (4 men, 5 women; mean age of 40.4 years; range 32 to 59) developed unexplained severe spontaneous osteoarticular pain of lower limbs 19 to 105 (mean 58) days after TP. Pain affected hip(s), knee(s), and/or ankle(s). Clinical examination was usually unremarkable. Favorable outcome was the rule; mean duration of pain was 86 (range 19 to 175) days. Radiographs were abnormal (joint swelling, patchy osteoporosis and/or periosteal reactions) in 41%, MR (epiphyseal fatty marrow replacement by edema and/or hemorrhages) in 83%, and bone scans (one to several epiphyseal foci of increased uptake) in 81% of the symptomatic examined areas. Among joints re-examined 9 to 12 months after resolution of the symptoms, X-rays showed periosteal reactions in 31%, and the bone scans disclosed persistent increased uptake in 53% of the joints, whereas epiphyseal MR abnormalities had completely disappeared in 86%. There was no difference in dialysis duration, post-TP weight gain, evidence of hyperparathyroidism, and steroid and cyclosporine doses between symptomatic and an appropriately selected group of asymptomatic patients. By contrast, serum alkaline phosphatase levels were transiently higher (at the onset of symptoms) in the symptomatic group.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Intravertebral vacuum cleft: changes in content after supine positioning.
Sequential radiographic and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging examinations were performed in nine patients with an intravertebral vacuum cleft indicative of avascular necrosis. Progressive changes in the content of the cleft occurred within an hour after the patients were placed in a supine position. Initially, the cleft showed a gaslike pattern during extension of the spine, with a radiolucent band on radiographs and a signal void on MR images. Later, the vacuum phenomenon disappeared on radiographs, and a fluidlike high-signal-intensity pattern appeared on T2- or T2*-weighted MR images, suggestive of a slow fluid inflow within the intravertebral cleft. Because the recognition of a vacuum cleft in a collapsed vertebral body helps avoid confusion with malignancy or infection, it is important to search for this in examinations performed immediately after supine positioning.
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Ultrasonographic detection of thickened joint capsules and tendons as marker of dialysis-related amyloidosis: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study.
Dialysis-related amyloidosis is characterized by a beta 2-microglobulin (beta 2M) infiltration of joint synovia, tendons and capsules. We report a cross-sectional ultrasonographic evaluation of supraspinatus tendon and femoral neck capsule thickness in 49 patients on long-term haemodialysis. Ultrasonographic evaluation was repeated 21 +/- 4 (SD) months later in 16 patients. Normal values for the supraspinatus tendon and femoral neck capsule were defined in a group of control subjects without history or signs of joint disease. Among the 49 patients, aged 21-86 (median 59) years, dialysed for 1-228 (median 97) months, 33 had at least one abnormal joint. The prevalence of patients with at least one and at least two abnormal joints, the number of abnormal joints per patient, and the thickness of the supraspinatus tendon and femoral neck capsule increased significantly with dialysis duration (P < 0.001 for all parameters considered). By multiple linear regression analysis, mean thickness of the supraspinatus tendon was positively related to both dialysis duration (P < 0.0001) and age (P = 0.036) independently. All (n = 11) patients with radiological and/or histological evidence of dialysis-related amyloidosis at the time of ultrasonography had thickened supraspinatus tendon and/or femoral neck capsule; which were also thickened in an additional 22 patients without radiological evidence of dialysis-related amyloidosis. Three died within 5-10 months of the ultrasonographic investigation: post-mortem examination of the periarticular tissue confirmed that the detected thickening was due in all three to beta 2M amyloid infiltration.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Ultrasonography of joint capsules and tendons in dialysis-related amyloidosis.
Beta-2-microglobulin (beta 2m) amyloid infiltrates joint synovia, tendons and capsules. We report a cross-sectional ultrasonographic (US) evaluation of supraspinatus tendons' (SST) and femoral neck capsules' (FNC) thickness in 49 patients on long-term hemodialysis. Normal values for SST and FNC were defined in control subjects. Among the 49 patients, aged 21 to 86 (median 59) years at the time of US, dialyzed for 1 to 228 (median 97) months, 33 had at least one abnormal joint. The prevalence of patients with at least one or at least two abnormal joints, the number of abnormal joints per patient and the thickness of SST and FNC increased significantly with dialysis duration (P < 0.001 for all parameters considered). All (N = 11) patients with radiological and/or histological evidence of dialysis-related amyloidosis (DRA) had thickened SST and/or FNC. Twenty-two other patients without similar evidence of DRA also had thickened FNC and/or SST. Three died; post-mortem examination demonstrated that US abnormalities were due to beta 2m amyloid infiltration. We suggest that SST and FNC thickness, measured by US, is a useful, non-invasive tool for the diagnosis of DRA.
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Appendicular and vertebral bone mass in ankylosing spondylitis. A comparison of plain radiographs with single- and dual-photon absorptiometry and with quantitative computed tomography.
OBJECTIVE: We assessed the prevalence, severity, and anatomic distribution of ankylosing spondylitis (AS)-related osteopenia (OP). METHODS: We studied 70 patients (60 males, 10 premenopausal females) with AS (according to the New York criteria) to determine the frequency of OP. Bone mass was measured by plain radiographs of the spine, by single-photon absorptiometry (SPA) of the distal and midshaft of the radius on the nondominant side, by dual-photon absorptiometry (DPA) of the lumbar spine (L2-L4), and by quantitative computed tomography (QCT) of the lumbar spine. RESULTS: SPA values for the radius mass were normal in males and in females, both at the distal and midshaft sites. In contrast, spine radiographs showed diminished density of the vertebral bodies in 69% of the males and 50% of the premenopausal females. Two male patients had had a vertebral compression fracture, and one female patient had had two. DPA values for the spine mass were significantly diminished in the male patients compared with the controls, but not in the female patients. Males with less severe AS also had the largest reduction in lumbar bone mineral content. In patients with more severe disease, lumbar bone mineral content was not statistically different from that in controls. QCT of the lumbar spine performed in 10 patients disclosed low density of the trabecular bone of the vertebral bodies, more so in those with more severe AS and syndesmophyte formation and/or apophyseal joint fusion, which contrasts with the normal values on DPA in these patients. CONCLUSION: Male patients with AS have axial osteopenia. In those who have very severe AS with new bone formation, DPA demonstrates normal values as a result of two opposite trends: central osteopenia (as assessed from QCT) and peripheral new-bone formation, which transforms vertebral bodies into long bones. This could modify the mechanical resistance of the spine and account for the propensity for anteroposterior transvertebral and transdiscal fractures after trauma in AS.
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Benign osteochondromas and exostotic chondrosarcomas: evaluation of cartilage cap thickness by ultrasound.
Ultrasonography (US) enables accurate assessment of the cartilage cap of exostoses. The cartilage cap appears as a hypoechoic layer covering the hyperechoic surface of the calcified part. Measurements of cap thickness with US were compared with measurements performed on pathological specimens in 22 resected exostoses and 2 exostotic chondrosarcomas. The US measurements proved to be very accurate, with a mean measurement error of less than 2 mm for cartilage caps less than 2 cm thick. The detection rate and measurement accuracy of US were higher than with computed tomography (CT) and comparable to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which were available in 14 and 10 cases, respectively. US appears to be a good procedure for evaluating the cartilage cap, which is usually thin for a benign exostosis and thick for a malignancy. In addition, other complications--such as bursa formation--are easily recognizable. The sole limitation is that US cannot visualize the cartilage cap when it is inwardly orientated or deeply located in soft tissues, which are both, however, relatively uncommon situations.
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Avascular necrosis of the hip: comparison of contrast-enhanced and nonenhanced MR imaging with histologic correlation. Work in progress.
In 15 hips with typical signs of avascular necrosis of the femoral head on plain radiographs and magnetic resonance (MR) images, gadolinium-enhanced spin-echo and fat-suppressed MR images were obtained and compared with nonenhanced T1- and T2-weighted images. Both enhanced and nonenhanced areas were consistently detected in the abnormal femoral heads. Enhanced areas showed a low signal intensity (SI) on T1-weighted MR images obtained before contrast material was administered and an intermediate to high SI on T2-weighted images. Nonenhanced areas showed an SI either identical (pattern 1) or hypointense (pattern 2) to that of fat on both sequences. Histologic correlation (six resected femoral heads) helped confirm that enhanced and nonenhanced areas corresponded respectively to viable and necrotic tissue. In most cases, SI analysis of nonenhanced T1- and T2-weighted images allows the differentiation of hypervascularized viable tissue from hypovascularized necrotic tissue of the sequestrum.
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[Medical imaging in tibial pseudarthrosis].
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Effect of dialysis membrane and patient's age on signs of dialysis-related amyloidosis. The Working Party on Dialysis Amyloidosis.
This 12 center study was designed to assess factors affecting the development and progression of beta 2-microglobulin amyloidosis in long-term dialysis. A total of 221 patients who were on hemodialysis for more than five years, and who were treated the entire time only with AN69, a biocompatible, highly permeable membrane, or cuprophane, a less permeable, poorly biocompatible membrane (Cell) were evaluated for time on dialysis, development of carpal tunnel syndrome, and cystic bone lesions. X-ray documentation was taken in a minimum of four of the six following joints: both hips, wrists and shoulders. The data demonstrate that patients treated solely by AN69 membranes display signs of bone amyloidosis less frequently than do those treated by Cell membranes. Age at onset of dialysis was found to have a striking correlation with the development of carpal tunnel syndrome and bone amyloidosis, while no significant influence was found for hyperparathyroidism, sex or year of first dialysis.
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Treatment of the vertebral crush fracture syndrome with enteric-coated sodium fluoride tablets and calcium supplements.
A cohort of 101 patients were treated with enteric-coated sodium fluoride tablets and calcium supplements. Vitamin D was also given in supra-physiologic doses in 70% of the cases. Lumbar bone mineral density (BMD), as measured by dual-photon absorptiometry, increased in a linear fashion up to four years, irrespective of the value of initial BMD and of the underlying condition, be it involutional osteoporosis (the vast majority), glucocorticoid osteoporosis, or even osteogenesis imperfecta. Estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) seemed to promote the fluoride-induced increase in lumbar BMD, as did the vitamin D supplements. Of these patients, 17% proved "resistant" to the therapy. There was no way of predicting who would be in this category. Compared with an age- and sex-matched control group, women showed significantly different behavior of their bone mass. In the control group, the losses were highly significant at the lumbar spine and at all three scanning sites of the forearm, as measured by single-photon absorptiometry. In contrast, the fluoride group had a significant gain of BMD at the lumbar spine and changes of BMC at the forearm were not significant. Fluoride thus preserved bone mass at the appendicular skeleton, while increasing it at the axial skeleton. When comparing the patients who received vitamin D supplements and those who did not, there was a significant difference in the appendicular skeleton. The distal forearm in the vitamin D-supplemented group tended to gain, whereas the midforearm lost significant bone mass. The trend was reversed in the group without vitamin D-supplementation, a more favorable pattern. Therefore, vitamin D supplements should not, as a rule, be provided to such patients. The biochemical hallmark of the fluoride-induced changes is a slight rise of the alkaline phosphatase within the normal range. Alkaline phosphatase levels that exceed the upper limit of normal signal a warning that too much fluoride and/or too little calcium supplements are being administered, or that a fluoride-related complication is impending or has occurred (e.g., a stress fracture). Osteosclerosis was achieved in 69% of the cases who had a radiological followup of at least four years (average period of appearance: 1.8 years). Stress fractures in the lower limbs occurred in 17 patients, almost exclusively in females, and appeared on average 2.2 years after initiation of therapy. In this group of stress fractures there was significant cortical bone loss at midforearm.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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Transient cyst-like cortical defects following fractures in children. Medullary fat within the subperiosteal haematoma.
Asymptomatic cyst-like cortical defects appearing after fractures in children have been occasionally reported. Typically, these defects appear during fracture consolidation, within the newly formed subperiosteal bone, proximal to the fracture line, do not enlarge, and progressively disappear. We have previously shown a fatty density on CT scan within the early cortical defect. We now present two additional cases in which early CT scans appeared to confirm that these transient cortical defects may consist of fat, and probably result from the inclusion of medullary fat within the subperiosteal haematoma.
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[Infection by the hematogenic route of closed vertebral fracture: apropos of a case and review of the literature].
We report a new case of haematogenous infection at the site of a spinal fracture. The patient developed a severe bronchopneumonial infection. After the trauma three weeks later he developed a severe but incomplete cord lesion due to acute vertebral osteomyelitis. The patient was treated with antibiotics. He made a slow, but uneventful and complete neurological recovery. 28 instances of osteomyelitis after fracture of which seven involved vertebral bones have been previously reported. The spontaneous appearance of haematogenous osteomyelitis in a fractured bone is a rare but not exceptional event.
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[Medical imaging of Paget's disease].
Diagnostic imaging of Paget's disease of bone should provide more than a diagnosis. It should aim at assessing the distribution of the lesions, their degree of activity, their potential complications and their response to therapy. This goal can be reached by using simple methods (bone scintigraphy and conventional radiography), as long as one keeps in mind both the natural evolution of the disease and the changes it may show in case of superadded factors such as fissure-fractures, immobilization, and osteopenia. In clinical practice, bone scintigraphy is particularly apt to assess the distribution of the lesions, as well as their extent and degree of activity. Conventional radiography remains the best tool for establishing the diagnosis and the differential diagnosis of Paget's disease of bone, as well as for detecting its common complications, such as fissure fractures, diaphyseal bowing or superadded arthropathy. Additional methods such as CT should only be used when specific complications (such as spinal stenosis or superadded tumor) are suspected. In patients under antiosteoclastic therapy, careful sequential X-rays of one or two selected pagetic areas initially showing focal bone resorption represent a unique modality for monitoring focal treatment efficacy. Such therapy may indeed improve the biological parameters of the disease without correcting the negative bone balance within the most active lesions.
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Depth insufficiency of the proximal trochlear groove on lateral radiographs of the knee: relation to patellar dislocation.
The depth of the trochlear groove was frequently noted to be insufficient in knees with patellar instability, particularly in the proximal portion of the trochlea. To confirm this observation, the depth of the trochlear groove of the femur was measured on lateral radiographs of 218 knees: 40 knees in 20 asymptomatic subjects, 116 knees in 69 patients undergoing radiography for various symptoms (96 without and 20 with patellar subluxation, determined on axial radiographs), and 62 knees in 34 patients who underwent surgery for recurrent dislocation or subluxation of one or both patellae (40 treated and 22 contralateral knees). In the 40 knees that had been operated on, the proximal trochlear depth (measured 1 cm below the upper limit of the trochlear groove) was 2.74 mm +/- 1.35, in contrast to 5.94 mm +/- 1.74 in the asymptomatic subjects and 5.84 mm +/- 1.53 in the patients with symptoms but no patellar instability. Recognition of depth insufficiency in the proximal portion of the trochlea should prompt a search for patellar instability. Axial views made with 30 degrees of knee flexion and lateral rotation of the leg are particularly helpful.
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Patellofemoral joint: 30 degrees axial radiograph with lateral rotation of the leg.
A method for axial radiography of the patellofemoral joint has been developed that combines a forced lateral rotation of the leg with 30 degrees flexion of the knee. This view can be obtained without any special device and is definitely superior to the 45 degrees routine axial view in the detection of lateral subluxation of the patella. It should be obtained when patellar instability is suspected.
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Spontaneous healing of aneurysmal bone cysts. A report of three cases.
We report three cases of spontaneous healing of aneurysmal bone cysts (ABC). In one case histological material was obtained after resection of the already ossified expansile mass discovered as a lytic lesion seven months previously. In the two other patients, spontaneous ossification of a radiologically presumed ABC in the lytic and expansile phase was observed after nine and seven months respectively. The healed lesions have remained stable at 12, 32, and 36 months respectively. These findings suggest that when the diagnosis can be made with confidence, and the lesion is in a location and at a stage that does not entail any risk of fracture or compression, expectant management should be considered. Our three patients were aged 22, 19 and 18 years, older than usual for developing ABC. This is also true for many of the few other reported cases of spontaneous or almost spontaneous healing and suggests that ABC has a greater tendency to stabilise in older patients.
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Subluxation of the patella. Computed tomography analysis of patellofemoral congruence.
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