Role of magnetic resonance imaging in the evaluation of the anterior knee pain

Ahmed Abd Alrahman Baz; Khaled Mohamed El Shantely; Talaat Ahmed Hassan; Sherif Galal Mohamed; Sara Ibrahim Sakr

doi:10.1186/s43055-019-0098-4

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Role of magnetic resonance imaging in the evaluation of the anterior knee pain

Ahmed Abd Alrahman Baz¹,
Khaled Mohamed El Shantely¹,
Talaat Ahmed Hassan¹,
Sherif Galal Mohamed² &
Sara Ibrahim Sakr¹

Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine volume 50, Article number: 109 (2019) Cite this article

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Abstract

Background

To review the most common causes of Anterior knee pain (AKP), with an emphasis on their MRI findings; 70 patients were included (24 males and 46 females). Their age range is 10–53 years with a mean ± SD of 28.8 ± 9.06 years. All patients performed MRI of the affected knee.

Results

Eleven disease entities were encompassed in this study; the patellar causes were dominating, where the chondromalacia patella being found in 43% of cases (n = 30), patellar instability was found in 19% (n = 13), transient patellar dislocation was found in 7% (n = 5), patellar tendinopathy was found in 4% (n = 3), and bipartite patella was found in 1% (n = 1). Hoffa’s disease was found in 14% (n = 10); the anterior meniscal tear was found in 13% (n = 9). Quadriceps tendinopathy was found in 3% (n = 2), and quadriceps tear was found in 4% (n = 3). Cartilage disease was found in 6% (n = 4); Osgood–Schlatter disease was found in 4% (n = 3); the coexistence of more than an entity was found in 13 cases (18.5%).

Conclusions

MRI provided a safe and accurate modality in the diagnosis of different causes of AKP with a high specification in detecting the grades and the types of some diseases.

Background

The knee joint is a hinge joint and is considered as the most commonly injured joint in the body as it may be less stable than other joints of ball and socket pattern; however, the incidence of knee injury had been increasingly seen with the widespread interest in contact sports. Anterior knee pain (AKP) is by far considered the commonest cause of knee complaints, and it constitutes about 25% of all adult knee problems; nevertheless, it is commonly encountered in athletes and active subjects, especially the adolescents [1, 2].

AKP as a term may be interchangeably used with the term patellofemoral pain syndrome where the patella and the retinaculum constitute the main source of the complaints. It is considered as an incapacitating problem that has an impact on the subject lifestyle; however, its etiology is still not well understood making its treatment—to some extent—a challenging issue [3].

Recently, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has obtained an eminent role in the diagnosis of different knee diseases, providing a safe imaging modality with multi-planner capabilities and at the same time not exposing the patient to ionizing radiation; moreover, it can help in an accurate assessment of the intra-articular structures like ligaments and cartilage as well as the extra-articular structures like tendons and the peri-articular musculature. It has been considered as a standard technique that could replace the diagnostic arthroscopy as a primary diagnostic modality for different knee problems, in addition to the recognition of the anatomical variants associated with the patellar instability [4].

AKP is considered as a nonspecific complaint that may encompass different etiologies including intra-articular and extra-articular causes, and the common differential diagnosis list is tabulated in Table 1; awareness of these causes may help in understanding the source of symptoms and may guide the imaging protocol in every patient.

Table 1 Summarizing the differential diagnosis for the common causes of the AKP and their clinical presentations

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Aim of the work

The main objective of our work is to review the most common causes of AKP, with emphasis on their MRI findings to allow a more accurate diagnosis and grading of some of the most common pathologies of such common complaint.

Methods

Seventy patients were included in this study (24 males and 46 females). The patients’ ages ranged from 10 to 53 years with a mean age ± SD of 28.8 ± 9.06 years. All patients were referred to the radiology department in the time period from May 2014 to June 2015.

Inclusion criteria

Any patient complaining of an anterior knee pain and willingness to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

Patients who had absolute contraindications to MR examination such as a cardiac pacemaker and aneurismal clipping as well as patients who had a previous knee surgery and claustrophobic patients.

All patients were subjected to:

1-
History taking including:
- Personal history: it included the age, the sex, and the occupation
- Present history: it included:
  - Analysis of patient complaint (knee pain): site, onset, course, duration, and the relationship to posture
  - Associated swelling, stiffness, and deformity
- Past history of previous trauma or operations
2-
Plain X-ray of the affected knee joint (if it was clinically indicated)
3-
MRI of the affected knee

The local ethics committee approved the study, and all participants gave their informed consent before being included.

MRI examination

Most patients had MR imaging of the affected knee joints on high field strength scanners using Philips scanners Achieva or Intera (1.5 T); for MRI sequences parameters on high field strength scanners, see Table 2. MRI was performed by a knee coil in all cases.

Table 2 Demonstrating the parameters of the MRI sequences on high field strength scanners (TR, time of repetition; TE, time of echo; STIR, short tau inversion recovery; FOV, field of view; PD, proton density; FFE, fast field echo)

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Technique

1-
Positioning:

The patients were positioned supine with the affected knee completely or nearly completely extended in the knee coil.

2-
Protocol:

MRI imaging sequences:

The MRI study included some or all of the following pulse sequences:

Sagittal T1 WIs
Sagittal T2 WIs
Sagittal PD WIs
Sagittal STIR or PD fat saturation
Axial T2WIs
Axial STIR
Coronal T2 FFE WIs or STIR

The following parameters were applied: the slice thickness was 4 mm, the slice gap was 4 mm, the matrix was 256/192 or 512/224, and the field of view ranged from 12 to 16 cm.

The average duration time of the examination was from 25 min up to 30 min.

All cases of chondromalacia patella had the grading system depending on the international cartilage repair society (ICRS) and Outerbridge grading system (Table 3) [5].

Table 3 Demonstrating the MRI grading of chondromalacia patella depending on the International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS) and Outerbridge grading system [5]

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In suspected cases of patella alta, we used Insall–Salvati index for the assessment of the patellar height, which was calculated as the length of the patellar ligament measured posteriorly from the distal end of the patella to its bony attachment in the tibial tuberosity, divided by the longest superoinferior dimension of the patella. Patella alta was defined when the patellar height ratio was more than 1.3 (normally it is 0.8 to 1.1) (Fig. 1) [6].

The trochlear dysplasia had been described as one of the predisposing factors of chronic patellofemoral instability. It had been classified into four types (A–D) (Table 4) (Figs. 2, 3, and 4) [5].

Table 4 Demonstrating the classification of the trochlear dysplasia [7]

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In cases of patellar maltracking, we measured the following different parameters for the assessment of the trochlear dysplasia.

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Lateral trochlear inclination according to Carrillon et al. [8]; It was defined on the MR slices at about 3 cm proximal to the femorotibial cleft by measuring the angle between a line drawn tangential to the subchondral bone of the posterior aspects of the femoral condyles and a line tangential to the subchondral bone of the lateral trochlear facet (see Fig. 2).
2-
Trochlear facet asymmetry according to Pfirrmann et al. [9]; MRI slices at about 3 cm proximal to the femorotibial cleft; the trochlear facet asymmetry was expressed with the relation of the length of the medial facet (M) to the lateral facet (L) and was expressed as a percent using the following equation ([M/L] × 100%) (see Fig. 3).
3-
Depth of the trochlear groove according to Pfirrmann et al. [9]; MRI slices at about 3 cm proximal to the femorotibial cleft; the trochlear depth was assessed by measuring the maximal anteroposterior distance of the medial (line A) and lateral femoral (line B) condyles and the minimal anteroposterior distance between the deepest point of the trochlear sulcus (line C) and the line drawn tangential to the posterior outlines of the femoral condyles (line D). The trochlear depth was calculated by the equation ([A + B]/2) − C (see Fig. 4).

Statistical methods

Data were coded and entered using the statistical package SPSS version 25. Data were summarized using mean, standard deviation, median, minimum, and maximum for quantitative variables and frequencies (number of cases) and relative frequencies (percentages) for categorical variables.

Results

Seventy patients were included in the study (24 males (34%) and 46 females (66%)). The patients’ ages ranged from 10 to 53 years with a mean age ± SD of 28.8 ± 9.06 years.

Eleven disease entities were found among the patients in this study sample; the patellar causes were the dominating one (70% of cases), where the chondromalacia patella being found in 43% of cases (n = 30) (Fig. 5), the patellar instability was found in 19% of patients (n = 13), the transient patellar dislocation was found in 7% of cases (n = 5) (Figs. 6 and 14), patellar tendinopathy was found in 4% of cases (n = 3) (Fig. 7), and the symptomatic bipartite patella was found in 1% of cases (n = 1) (Fig. 6). Hoffa’s disease was found in 14% of cases (n = 10) (Figs. 8 and 9); the anterior meniscal tear was found in 13% of cases (n = 9) (Fig. 10) (Tables 5, 6, and 8).

Table 5 Demonstrating the number (No.) and the percentage (%) of the prevalence of different causes of anterior knee pain (AKP) by sex

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Table 6 Demonstrating the prevalence of 11 diseases entities found among the patients in the study sample. This table showed the largest percentage of the patients suffered from the chondromalacia patella

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Quadriceps tendon causes represented (7% of cases) where the tendinopathy was found in 3% of cases (n = 2) (Fig. 11) and the quadriceps tendon tear was found in 4% of cases (n = 3) (Tables 5, 6, and 8).

Cartilage disease was found in 6% of cases (n = 4), Osgood–Schlatter disease was found in 4% of cases (n = 3) (Fig. 12) (Tables 5, 6, and 8).

The coexistence of more than one disease in one patient was found in 13 cases (18.5%), and this was demonstrated in Table 7.

Table 7 Demonstrating the overlapping between patients who had more than one disease entity

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In this study, the female gender showed more affection in certain disease entities like chondromalacia patella, Hoffa’s disease, patellar instability, patellar dislocation, patellar tendinopathy, quadriceps tendon tear, and the anterior meniscal tear, whereas the male gender showed more affection in the rest of the disease entities (Tables 5 and 8).

Table 8 Demonstrating the percentage of sex prevalence among different diseases entities

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Chondromalacia patella was found in 30 patients (43%); among them, there were 13 patients who had grade IV of the disease and 8 patients had grade III, 7 patients had grade II, and two patients had grade I (Table 9).

Table 9 Demonstrating the percentage of the prevalence of the different grades of chondromalacia patella

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Trochlear dysplasia was found in 13 cases; among them, 5 cases had type A and 5 cases had type B while type C was found in 3 cases (Table 10); the trochlear groove depth measured in millimeter, the percentage of the facet asymmetry, and the lateral inclination angle were measured in each type of the trochlear dysplasia (Figs. 13, 14, and 15) being statistically calculated in minimum, maximum, median, and mean values (Table 11).

Table 10 Demonstrating the percentage of the different grades of trochlear dysplasia among the patients with patellar instability

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Table 11 Demonstrating the statistically calculated minimum, maximum, median, and the mean values of the trochlear groove depth by mm, trochlear facet asymmetry by %, and the lateral inclination angle by °

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Patellar dislocation was found in 18 cases; among them, 13 cases had patellar instability while 5 cases had a transient patellar dislocation (Figs. 6, 13, 14, and 15) (Table 12).

Table 12 Demonstrating the percentage of the patellar instability and the transient patellar dislocation

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Discussion

Diederichs, Issever, and Scheffler [7] reported that the AKP may affect up to more than 30% of adolescents at any time. The majority of their patients were female, and their symptoms most commonly occurred in their second and third decades of life; this was matching the present study where about 66% of the study sample was females with an average age of 27 years and 34% were males with an average age of 30 years.

In our study, we divided the pathological process causing the symptoms of anterior knee pain in a fashion similar to that proposed by McNally et al. [10] into five categories according to the location and the anatomical structure affected as follows: (a) patellar tendon disorders, (b) quadriceps tendon disorders, (c) patellar disorders, (d) Hoffa’s diseases, and (e) miscellaneous causes including anterior meniscal tear and cartilage injuries.

In the present study, each category represented the following percentages: (a) Patellar tendon disorders represent 9% of the sample size, and they include patellar tendinopathy at 4% and Osgood–Schlatter disease at 4%. (b) Quadriceps tendon disorders represent 7% of the sample size, and they include quadriceps tendinopathy at 3% and quadriceps tendon tear at 4%. (c) Patellar disorders represented 67% of the sample size, and they include chondromalacia patella at 43%, patellar instability at 19%, transient patellar dislocation at 7%, and the painful bipartite patella at 3%. (d) Hoffa’s diseases represented 14% of the sample size, and they include Hoffa impingement syndrome and Hoffa ganglion cyst. Finally, (e) the miscellaneous causes that represented 17% of the sample size, and they include torn anterior horn of the lateral meniscus at 13% and articular cartilage shear injury at 4% (Tables 5 and 8).

Patellar tendinitis (PT) or Jumper’s knee is considered as one of the most common tendon abnormalities in young active subjects. From the etiological point of view, it had been recently described as a degenerative tendinopathy rather than an inflammatory process [11]. It exhibits the characteristic imaging features in MRI including focal thickening of the proximal segment of the tendon (the tendon AP thickness is more than 7 mm) that may show an area of focal T2 high signal intensity, with a predilection to the medial portion of the affected tendon [12].

In our results, 4% of the patients presented with AKP showed MRI evidence of patellar tendinopathy (66% below the age of 30 years). In all cases, the hyperintense focal thickening was at the proximal third of the tendon, with the AP diameter of the patellar tendon being greater than 8 mm (Fig. 7), and this was concordant with the study of Mohammad Samim et al. [12], as regards the MRI findings of patellar tendinitis.

Osgood–Schlatter disease (OSD) was defined by Gottsegen et al. [13], as a traction apophysitis of the tibial tuberosity caused by repetitive microtrauma. It is more prevalent in adolescent male athletes.

Niitsu [14] considered the MRI as the modality of choice for the diagnosis of OSD as the tibial surface may not be yet ossified; thus, the plain radiography may play a limited role in the diagnosis of the early cases. In our study, about 4% had an MRI evidence of OSD (all of them were < 30 years) (Fig. 12), with a male predominance in the study sample (males represented 67% of OSD sample size).

Aparicio et al. [15] had related the presence of a patella alta (patellar height ratio of more than 1.3) (normal is 0.8 to 1.1) as one of the predisposing factors to OSD; in our results, 33% of the cases showed MRI evidence of patella alta (patellar height ratio equal to 1.7) as a predisposing factor for OSD (Fig. 15).

Quadriceps tendon rupture is one of the serious extensor tendon injuries, and its incidence had been reported as an uncommon problem; it is more seen in subjects older than 40 years. When it occurs, it usually takes place at the tendon–bone junction and may be a partial or a full-thickness tear; nevertheless, the partial thickness tear may be challenging for clinical diagnosis as there is some preservation of the extensor mechanism; hence, the MRI may play an important role in its early detection [16]. In our results, 4% (3 patients) had a quadriceps tendon rupture; 2 of them were above the age of 40 years; also, 2 of them showed MRI evidence of partial tear and one patient showed MRI evidence of complete tendon tear with all fibers were transected. All of these patients experienced a past history of trauma, and none of them had a predisposing factor for spontaneous tendon rupture.

The alteration of the biomechanics of the tendon can lead to tendon degeneration resulting in chronic tendinosis that may present by AKP [17]; in MRI, it may appear as a chronic enthesopathy; in our results, the quadriceps tendinopathy was detected in about 3% of the patients who presented by AKP.

Chondromalacia patella could be described as a denudation of the patellar cartilage with surface irregularity on arthroscopic probing; this condition may present patellofemoral pain (PFP) and is more likely to be seen in adolescents especially the females [18]; this was matched with our study where (70% female, 30% male, and 25 years age average). Considering the 0.05 level of significance, the P value of chi-square test (0.03) showed that there was a significant difference between the prevalence of chondromalacia patella between males and females.

The degree of cartilage loss can be graded into four degrees by arthroscopy according to the Outerbridge grading system; however, the International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS) found a good MRI correlation to the Outerbridge grading system and classified the cartilage loss into four degrees as well (Table 3) [19, 20].

Mattila et al. [20] reported that the MRI diagnostic accuracy is higher for high-grade lesions (grades III and IV), and this was greatly matching our study, where 43% of the cases of chondromalacia patella were grade IV, 27% were grade III, 23% were grade II, and 7% were grade I (Table 9).

MRI plays an important role in the diagnosis of the patellar instability; moreover, it can provide a clue for the diagnosis of the anatomical variants that may predispose to the condition [21].

The study done by Kirsch et al. had found that the prevalence of patellar dislocation among 1450 patient was 2%. The most constant finding detected in all of the patients with transient patellar subluxation was the presence of knee effusion (100%). Abnormalities in the medial patellar retinaculum were found in about 96%, and abnormal lateral patellar position in about 92%, whereas the contusions of the outer femoral condyle and the inner patellar facet were found in about 81% [22].

In our study, the patellofemoral instability (i.e., transient patellar dislocation) was detected in 7% of the patients who were presented by AKP, with female predominance (60% female and 40% male); almost all patients had MRI evidence of joint effusion, and also almost all of them showed abnormalities in the medial patellar retinaculum. Eighty percent of our patients showed abnormal lateral patellar position and 60% of them showed contusions of the outer femoral condyle and the inner patellar facet (kissing contusions).

Trochlear dysplasia had been described as a predisposing factor for patellar instability and was classified into four main types by Dejour and Coultre [23] (types A, B, C, and D) (Table 4).

In our study, we founded that 19% of the patients had PFP with malalignment (i.e., chronic patellar instability) and showing MRI evidence of trochlear dysplasia. Thirty-eight percent were categorized as type A, 38% as type B, and 24% as type C according to Dejour et al.’s classification (Figs. 13, 14, and 15) (Table 10).

For the assessment of the trochlear dysplasia, the lateral trochlear angle inclination was instrumented using the MRI by Carrillon et al. [8]; they found the lateral trochlear inclination of 11° to be a threshold value to distinguish between patients with patellofemoral instability (trochlear dysplasia) and those with a nonspecific knee pain.

Another method was by measuring the depth of the trochlear groove and the trochlear facet asymmetry being measured 3 cm proximal to the tibiofemoral cleft; this was described by Pfirrmann et al. [9] who found that trochlear groove depth less than 3 mm and facet asymmetry of less than 40% were of diagnostic value for the trochlear dysplasia.

MRI had been proved to be highly accurate with reproducible measurement of the femoral sulcus from the subchondral bone as well as from the articular hyaline cartilage as the measurements from the articular cartilage was considered a true measurement rather than the plain radiography measurements as the former is more representative of the actual joint space [7].

Nelitz et al. did a study on 80 knees of 78 patients, aiming to evaluate whether specific measurements of the femoral trochlea can be assigned to the qualitative classification system of Dejour using the above-mentioned measurements. They concluded that, by using a descriptive statistics using boxplot diagrams, none of the objective measurements of the femoral trochlea described in the literature could be assigned to the four-grade descriptive classification of trochlear dysplasia of Dejour as the median and average range of these measurements allowed no discrimination between trochlear dysplasia types B, C, and D. However, the threshold values used to discriminate between low-grade (Dejour type A) and high-grade dysplasia (Dejour types B–D) could be identified [24].

In our results, types B and C trochlear dysplasia showed nearly similar median and average values of both the trochlear groove depth and lateral inclination angle (median value of trochlear groove depth for both B and C was 2 mm and for A was 5 mm; the median values of the lateral inclination angles for both B and C were 9° and 9.4° respectively and for type A was 20°). The median values of the trochlear facet asymmetry were different between different types of trochlear dysplasia (the median value for type A was 39%, for type B was 55%, and for type C was 33%) (Table 11).

Fithian et al. [25] also reported that most patients with patellar dislocation were young and active subjects, with the females in their 2nd decade of life being considered as a more vulnerable group. In our study, we found that 66% of the patients were female and 34% of them were male.

An association between the patellar subluxation with both the chondromalacia patella and the patellar tendinopathy had been found by McNally et al. [26]; in our results, only 7% of the patients with patellar subluxation had MRI evidence of a chondromalacia patella and 7% had MRI evidence of patella Alta (Fig. 15).

Bipartite patella occurs when the secondary ossification centers of the patella did not fuse together; Mohammad Samim et al. [12] described three types of bipartite patella according to Saupe et al.’s classification. The first one involves the lower pole of the patella; the second one involves the lateral margin of the patella, and the third one—which is considered as the most common type—involves the upper-lateral pole.

In a study done by Kavanagh et al. [27], the bone marrow edema that was detected within the bipartite fragment was considered as the sole finding in 49% of the patients who had a symptomatic bipartite patella. In our study, 3% of the patients (2/70) with AKP had a symptomatic bipartite patella. Both of them were of the third type (at the superolateral patellar pole) and had MRI evidence of bone marrow edema within their bipartite fragments (Fig. 6).

Chung et al.’s [28] study enrolled 50 patients with AKP and reported that 50% of the sample had Hoffa impingement syndrome with a female predominance. In our study, only 14% of patients showed edema within the Hoffa pad of fat with respect to female predominance to account for about 70% of the sample size, and male 30% (Tables 5, 6, and 8). So, our study is concordant with Chung et al.’s study as regards the gender but differs in the prevalence and this might be explained by the difference in the criteria of the selected sample between the two studies, as Chung et al. excluded patients outside the ages of 14–50 years or those with a history of direct trauma to the knee, while in our study both were included.

Anterior meniscal tear and cartilage injuries were considered by McNally et al. [26], among the main causes of AKP. MRI is considered as the study of choice in cases of the meniscal tear; moreover, it may replace the unnecessary arthroscopy for such entity of disease [10]. In our results, about 13% of the patients in the study sample had MRI evidence of a tear in the anterior horn of lateral knee meniscus with a female predominance (67% females and 33% males). Their age average was 27 years, 78% of them had a history of trauma. Only 22% were above the age of 45 and had no past history of knee trauma (Tables 6 and 8).

The articular cartilage injury may mimic the meniscal tears and might be associated with less satisfactory arthroscopic results; thus, it would be beneficial to have an MRI examination prior to intervention to sort out the patients who might get benefit from cartilage replacement therapies [29].

A variety of articular cartilage injuries had been described as post-traumatic sequelae including fissures, chondral flaps or tears, and loss of a segment of articular cartilage; however, these lesions may be detected as a sole finding or might be associated with other abnormalities.

In our results, cartilage injuries were detected in 6% of the study sample, showing a male predominance (75% were male and 25% were female) with average age 32 years. All had a past history of trauma. It is worth mentioning that 25% of cartilage injury cases were associated with the anterior meniscal tear (Tables 6 and 8).

Conclusion

MRI is generally a safe, accurate, and specific modality which has been proven to be the modality of choice in the diagnosis of different knee pathologies that cause AKP in different age groups. Also, it has a high specification for detecting the grades and the types of some of these diseases or factors that may predispose to them such as trochlear dysplasia and patella alta.

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Abbreviations

AKP:: Anterior knee pain
MRI:: Magnetic resonance imaging
PFP:: Patellofemoral pain

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The corresponding author ABB had contributed by doing some complementary ultrasound examinations and the interpretation of the MRI images in the research work. He also had a share in the editing of the manuscript and reference collection. KMS had the idea of the research work and revised the editing process. TAH had a role in the image interpretation and the measurements. SGM had the role of patient clinical assessment and in the patient selection. SIS had supervised the MRI examinations and for the workstation measurements. She had shared in the editing process and in the reference collection. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Baz, A.A.A., El Shantely, K.M., Hassan, T.A. et al. Role of magnetic resonance imaging in the evaluation of the anterior knee pain. Egypt J Radiol Nucl Med 50, 109 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43055-019-0098-4

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Received: 27 November 2019
Accepted: 02 December 2019
Published: 30 December 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s43055-019-0098-4

Keywords

Anterior
Knee pain
MRI