The double ACL sign: An aberrant bucket-handle tear of lateral meniscus.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Meniscal injuries are one of the most common musculoskeletal injuries around the knee affecting patients of different genders, ages and activity levels. These injuries could be acute or chronic tears that cause pain and mechanical symptoms based on the injury severity and whether it is displaced and entrapped in an abnormal location within the knee or not. Advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allowed us to have a better understanding of multiple bucket handle meniscal tear patterns with its specific MRI signs which have been reported in the literature.

Case presentation

This report presents a rare case of a 16-year-old boy with atypical bucket-handle tear of lateral meniscus and MRI showed a bucket-handle tear of lateral meniscus with a fragment entrappe

SUBMITTER: Al-Ahaidib AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7217775 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature