Radial tear medial meniscus

Case contributed by Chris O'Donnell
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Recent trauma, now persistent pain in the medial knee.

Patient Data

Age: 60
Gender: Female
mri

Typical small, but definite, so-called radial tear at the junction of the posterior horn and body of the medial mensicus seen as truncation of the normal triangular tip on the sagittal and coronal projections.

Nicely demonstrated as a radial defect on the axial scan.

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