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Abstract
Meniscal injuries may be the most common knee injury.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has historically been considered to be the golden standard imaging modality to diagnose medial knee injuries. However, there are significant limitations.
Ultrasound has become the primary diagnostic tool in traumatic, inflammatory and degenerative soft tissue conditions. It is also used to monitor the condition of joints, ligaments, cartilage and muscles.
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the role of ultrasonography for diagnosis of meniscal tear in patients with knee pain and compare its diagnostic accuracy to MRI.
The ultrasound results evaluated the presence of meniscal tear by the presence or abscence of any hypo echoic band or stripe that can be seen within the meniscus.
According to MRI, 15 patients of the total 15 were positive for Meniscal tear, the U/S Could diagnose 13 of them.
from our study the following conclusion can be derived:
US is highly sensitive and specific in detection of meniscal tear in correlation to MRI. So, they can be used as non invasive method for screening of patients with knee pain for meniscal tear.