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A deceptive MRI appearance of the medial meniscus in a 14 year old boy: a case report Padmanabhan Subramanian , Charles A Willis-Owen and David G Houlihan-Burne Cases Journal 2009, 2:16 (full text available)
Background A 14 year old boy with a history and clinical examination suggestive of a medial meniscal tear...

Authors - George El Rassi, MD Saint George University Hospital- Achrafieh-lebanon Lebanon
J. Richard Bowen, MD Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children Wilmington, DE 19803-3607
The purpose of this chapter is to describe the clinical manifestations, the diagnosis and the management of discoid lateral meniscus of the knee in children .A discoid meniscus is...

- tripled layered arrangement on the lateral aspect of knee;
- posterolateral part of capsule is divided into two laminae that encompass LCL, fabellofibullar, & arcuate ligaments;
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Notes on the layers and ligamentous anatomy of the medial aspect of the knee.
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

- most common form of plica;
- located over the medial femoral condyle;
- vulnerable to direct trauma when the knee is flexed;
- repeated trauma or irritation may lead to inflammation and fibrosis of...

Plica syndrome of the knee is a constellation of signs and symptoms that occur secondary to injury or overuse. An otherwise normal structure, a plica can be a significant source of anterior knee pain. Once an inflammatory process is established, the normal plical tissue may hypertrophy into a truly pathological...

- synovial plica are folds of embryonic remnants of synovial membrane which, in fetus, divide knee is divided into medial, lateral, & patellar compartments;
- although these membranes normally degenerate by the second trimester, ...