Abstract

MORASEN CUEVAS, José Ricardo; CALISTE MANZANO, Osvaldo  and  VERGES CALLARD, Luis. Main clinical and endoscopical aspects of the degenerative knee disease. MEDISAN [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.9, pp.2098-2104. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional study with one-hundred patients having a diagnosis of degenerative knee arthropathy treated at the Rheumatology Service in ¨Saturnino Lora¨ University Hospital from Santiago de Cuba was carried out between 2003 and 2007 in order to characterize them according to the main clinical and endoscopical aspects of this disorder. Among the most important results, 60-year-old and over patients and female gender were relevant. Gonarthrosis and condromalacy constituted the main endoscopical findings while curettage and articular wash-out, being the therapeutical alternatives most used, were predominant.

Keywords : degenerative knee arthropathy; endoscopical alterations; gonarthrosis; condromalacy; curettage; articular wash-out; secondary health care.

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