Association of medial meniscal extrusion with medial tibial osteophyte distance detected by T2 mapping MRI in patients with early-stage knee osteoarthritis

Abstract Background Medial meniscal extrusion (MME) is associated with progression of medial knee osteoarthritis (OA), but no or little information is available for relationships between MME and osteophytes, which are found in cartilage and bone parts. Because of the limitation in detectability of t...

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Main Authors: Shinnosuke Hada, Muneaki Ishijima, Haruka Kaneko, Mayuko Kinoshita, Lizu Liu, Ryo Sadatsuki, Ippei Futami, Anwajan Yusup, Tomohiro Takamura, Hitoshi Arita, Jun Shiozawa, Takako Aoki, Yuji Takazawa, Hiroshi Ikeda, Shigeki Aoki, Hisashi Kurosawa, Yasunori Okada, Kazuo Kaneko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-09-01
Series:Arthritis Research & Therapy
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13075-017-1411-0