Ultrasonographic Changes of the Knee Joint Reflect Symptoms of Early Knee Osteoarthritis in General Population; The Nagahama Study.
Motoo SaitoHiromu ItoAkinori OkahataMoritoshi FuruKohei NishitaniShinichi KuriyamaShinichiro NakamuraTomotoshi KawataTome IkezoeTadao TsuboyamaNoriaki IchihashiYasuharu TabaraFumihiko MatsudaShuichi MatsudaPublished in: Cartilage (2022)
Among the knee US-detectable changes, medial osteophytes were strongly associated with knee symptoms. Osteophytes are reliable predictors of symptomatic early knee OA, even in participants with few radiographic OA changes.