Interim results from a randomized trial show that middle-aged patients with knee pain and suspected meniscal tears can benefit from MRI scans even in relatively simple cases. MRI findings from 760 ...

The primary outcomes assessed were knee function and knee pain ... 58 In this study, the authors defined an unstable meniscal tear using previously published MRI-based radiological criteria and also ...

In view of the high prevalence of meniscal tears and their poor correlation with symptoms, indiscriminate use of MRI of the knee in people aged 40 years or more poses a serious risk of overtreatment ...

Standard anteroposterior and lateral radiographs of the right knee showed no pathologic conditions. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI ... ACL tear (Figure 4) and a peripheral medial meniscal ...

All participants had an MRI-confirmed acute ACL rupture. Each participant’s injured knee was immobilized ... while only one of 39 participants with meniscal injury had persistent symptoms ...

None of these 29 players had meniscal tears evident on the MRI at the time of the ACL tear assessment, suggesting that the tears were the result of recurrent giving way of the knee. Just 12 of 31 ...

Horizontal cleavage tears can be asymptomatic and unrelated to knee symptoms ... cleavage tears in younger patients who have associated meniscal cysts and minimal chondral damage.

is feared to have suffered a significant knee injury that would knock him for the playoffs, sources tell me and @MikeGarafolo. He’ll have an MRI this morning to deliver the full news.