Extensive Arthroscopic Chondroplasty for Cartilage Hyperplasia of the Femoral Condyle Causing Recurrent Knee Locking in a Patient With Multiple Epiphyseal Dysplasia.

ABSTRACT: Multiple epiphyseal dysplasia is a genetically heterogeneous group of diseases causing altered enchondral ossification. It may affect the knee, among other joints, with variable clinical manifestations. In this report, we present a case of a young adult patient with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, presenting recurrent catching and locking of the knee due to hyperplastic irregular cartilage. Although radiographs and magnetic resonance imaging of his knee were inconclusive with regard to the source of symptoms, arthroscopic examination revealed a flap of irregular and extensive hypertrophic cartilage of the medial femoral condyle that was causing catching during knee motions. This was treated by extensive arthroscopic resection of the hypertrophic cartilage with the knee held in a deep flexio

SUBMITTER: Koch JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4913047 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature