Abstract

FERNANDEZ VITORTES, RAÚL et al. Knee arthrography with double contrast: Diagnostic value in the meniscus injuries. Rev Cubana Ortop Traumatol [online]. 1997, vol.11, n.1-2, pp. 91-98. ISSN 1561-3100.

A study of 100 patients with a clinical and suggestive symptomatology of meniscus injury, who underwent knee arthrography with double contrast at the Radiology Department of the "Celia Sánchez Manduley" Hospital, in Manzanillo, between January, 1987, and December, 1993, is conducted. Simple knee radiographies were made first with anteroposterior, lateral and axial views. After that, it was performed the arthrocentesis for injecting the fluid contrasts, and then the fluoroscopic examination and X-ray taking at different degrees of rotation of the knee. Finally, their medical histories were reviewed and it was established the clinicoradiological and surgical relationship that was adequate in 88.8 % of the cases, which showed the diagnostic value of the study.

Keywords : KNEE [radiography]; ARTHROGRAPHY [methods]; PNEUMORADIOGRAPHY [methods]; MENISCI, TIBIAL [radiography]; MENISCI, TIBIAL [injuries.].