We reviewed the case notes and X-rays of all patients with knee arthritis treated with yttrium-90 for the first time at a single institution from November 1981 to November 1995. Outcomes were assessed as 'improved' or 'not improved' by review of the case notes at 3, 6 and 12 months, and by the absence of further intra-articular (IA) steroid injections. Of the 121 knees treated, 87 had adequate ...

Knee osteoarthritis is the most common chronic joint disorder in elderly people. However, a population-based, longitudinal study on health-related quality of life in knee osteoarthritis has not been conducted in Japan. We studied 333 women aged 50 years and older at baseline, with 8 to 9 years of follow-up. Anteroposterior weight-bearing knee radiographs were obtained at baseline and graded acc...

We reviewed all patients of 65 years and older (n=183), who underwent a knee arthroscopy between 2004 and 2005. The purpose of our study was to determine the frequency and severity of cartilage lesions and their influence on short-term clinical outcome. Signs of osteoarthritis (OA) were absent or minor on pre operative plain radiographs in 30.5% of patients, but only 5.3% of patients were found...

Criteria for use in population surveys to study the epidemiology of ankylosing spondylitis were proposed at the CIOMS Symposium in Rome in 1961 (Kellgren, Jeffrey, and Ball, 1963), and a revised set of criteria were introduced at the next symposium in New York in 1966 (Bennett and Wood, 1968). The Rome and New York criteria are shown in Tables I and II respectively. The Rome criteria specify th...

OBJECTIVE To identify the consequences of an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear in a cohort of male soccer players 14 years after the initial injury with respect to radiographic knee osteoarthritis and patient relevant outcomes. METHODS Of 219 male soccer players with an ACL injury in 1986, 205 (94%) were available for follow up after 14 years; 75% of the cohort (154/205) answered mailed q...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether spinal osteoarthritis (OA) is responsible for the common finding that lumbar spine bone mineral density (BMD) is greater when measured in the anteroposterior plane than when measured in the lateral plane. METHODS We studied lateral spine radiographs from 63 women who attended a hospital outpatient department for bone density measurement and who also underwent ...

Objective The primary aim of this study is to compare tibial tuberosity-trochlear groove (TTTG) distance in patients with or without knee osteoarthritis. Additionally, the variability of tibial tubercle according to trochlear groove was evaluated. Materials and Methods In this retrospective cohort study, TTTG distance was measured with two different methods on magnetic resonance (MR) images. ...

BACKGROUND The clinical and radiologic features of radial tears of the medial meniscus posterior horn were compared with those of horizontal tears. METHODS From January 2007 to December 2008, 387 consecutive cases of medial meniscal tears were treated arthroscopically. Among these, 91 were radial tears in the medial meniscus posterior horn, and 95 were horizontal tears in the posterior segmen...

Tocopherols are lipid-soluble antioxidants that may protect against some conditions of aging. The authors examined associations between radiographic knee osteoarthritis and serum levels of alpha-, delta-, and gamma-tocopherol and the alpha:gamma-tocopherol ratio in African-American and White adults from the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project (North Carolina, 1991-1997). Two hundred cases wi...

Objective: To identify the consequences of an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear in a cohort of male soccer players 14 years after the initial injury with respect to radiographic knee osteoarthritis and patient relevant outcomes. Methods: Of 219 male soccer players with an ACL injury in 1986, 205 (94%) were available for follow up after 14 years; 75% of the cohort (154/205) answered mailed q...