T2 Relaxation Time Changes in the Distal Femoral Condylar Cartilage of Children and Young Adults with Discoid Meniscus.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate compositional changes in the distal femoral condylar cartilage (FCC) of children and young adults with and without discoid meniscus by T2 relaxation time mapping.

Design

We retrospectively reviewed knee magnetic resonance images including sagittal T2 maps of distal FCC performed in patients with or without discoid meniscus. Combined meniscal pathology such as degeneration or tears was also reviewed. Regions of interest were selected, and T2 relaxation time profiles were generated according to medial and lateral and FCC and according to weight-bearing and non-weight-bearing FCC. Nonparametric comparison tests using median values were performed.

Results

Seventy-nine knees from 73 patients (2-20 years) including 45 knees with lateral discoid meni

SUBMITTER: Yoon H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9137297 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature