Abstracts tagged "meniscus and osteonecrosis"

Abstract Number: 1413 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Medial Meniscus Extrusion and Spontaneous Osteonecrosis of the Knee
Tadashi Yasuda, Soichiro Masuda, Yuka Miyazaki, Makoto Hayashi, Yusuke Yamawaki, Mutsumi Watanabe, Hisataka Takeuchi, Satoshi Ota, Satoshi Fujita, Eijiro Onishi, Koichi Iwaki and Hiroshi Yamamoto, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Kobe, Japan
Background/Purpose: Although the pathogenesis of spontaneous osteonecrosis of the knee (SONK) remains unclear, two main etiologies have been suggested in the pathogenesis of SONK: vascular…