Table 2 Lesions identified on baseline scans in 2.3% of healthy subjects (14 of 601)
From: What is the clinical and ethical importance of incidental abnormalities found by knee MRI?
Lesion | Gender | Age in years | Outcome (investigation: final diagnosis/diagnoses) |
|---|---|---|---|
Enchondroma | Female | 54 | Panel review: enchondroma |
Enchondroma | Female | 57 | Panel review: enchondroma |
Intramedullary lesion | Female | 56 | Panel review: benign enchondroma |
Enchondroma | Female | 61 | X-ray, multi-slice computed tomography, panel review: lobulated enchondroma |
Enchondroma | Male | 72 | X-ray, panel review: enchondroma |
Marrow hyperplasia | Female | 50 | Physician review: haemoglobin 13.2 g/dL, blood donor, no additional reason for marrow hyperplasia |
Marrow hyperplasia | Female | 52 | Haematological review: known anemia secondary to bleeding |
Marrow hyperplasia | Female | 54 | Physician review: full blood examination stable over 2 years, no reason for marrow hyperplasia identified |
Marrow hyperplasia | Female | 60 | Haematological review: anemia identified and treated |
Ganglion | Male | 73 | Orthopedic surgeon and panel review: neuroma or soft tissue lesion identified. Ganglion likely. Differential diagnoses: haemangioma. Meniscal tear, chondromalacia patellae |
Geode | Male | 66 | X-ray, MRI: medial meniscal tear, cartilage loss, medial femoral condyle and patellar cartilage, reactive marrow oedema, infra-patellar bursitis, osseous ganglion |
Fibrous cortical defect | Female | 52 | X-ray, MRI: healed fibrous cortical defect |
Baker cyst, atypical | Male | 60 | MRI: grade IV chondromalacia patella, medial meniscal tear, atypical Baker cyst (posteromedial joint line) |
Ganglion | Female | 63 | Panel review: ganglion |