Ultrasonographic Assessment of the Normal Femoral Articular Cartilage of the Knee Joint: Comparison with 3D MRI.

Kyösti Kauppinen Victor Casula Štefan Zbýň Roberto Blanco Sequeiros Simo S Saarakkala Mika T Nevalainen

Published in: TheScientificWorldJournal (2021)

Two-thirds of the articular cartilage of the medial femoral condyle, and one-third in the lateral femoral condyle, can be assessed with US. The cartilage thickness measurements seem to be underestimated by US. These results show promise for the evaluation of the weight-bearing cartilage of the medial femoral condyle with US.

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