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Synovial Pathology in the Knee

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Inflammation of synovial tissue within the knee can result in pain, swelling, and decreased range of motion, thereby limiting a patient’s function. Neoplastic and non-neoplastic etiologies can be the cause of dysfunction. Neoplastic causes include pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS), synovial chondromatosis, and lipoma arborescens/synovial lipomatosis. Suspicion of synovial pathology warrants further workup, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to effectively evaluate synovial tissue. This chapter will present case-based descriptions of the aforementioned synovial pathologies to guide the management and treatment of each diagnosis.

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Acknowledgment

We would like to acknowledge and thank Dr. Gord Guo Zhu, MD, MS, PhD, for helping to obtain the histology slides used within this manuscript.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard-Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Arianna L. Gianakos

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Liam A. Peebles & Mary K. Mulcahey

  3. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health, Jersey City Medical Center, Jersey City, NJ, USA

    John Yurek

  4. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA

    Tae Won B. Kim

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Gianakos, A.L., Peebles, L.A., Yurek, J., Kim, T.W.B., Mulcahey, M.K. (2022). Synovial Pathology in the Knee. In: Werner, B.C. (eds) MRI-Arthroscopy Correlations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94789-7_10

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