Magnetic Resonance Imaging Finding in Common Knee Joint Diseases

Abstract

The study was a retrospective study of MRI finding in common knee joint diseases , this study was conducted in Khartoum state of Sudan in Dar Eleilaj hospital and Antalia medical diagnostic Center from September 2016 to January 2017, and the problem of the study was increasing in patients suffering from knee joint pain ,the study was aimed to find out the most common disease in knee joint ,demonstrate the diagnostic value of MRI in diagnosing presence and absence of this disease and identify whether MRI can lead to accurate diagnoses of Knee joint disease, the data was collected from 100 patients and this data was classified and analyzed using SPSS, and found that meniscus tear is the most common knee joint disease with a prevalence of 29% (18% for medial meniscus tear and 11% for lateral meniscus tear ) and 21% for cruciate ligaments tear and 14% for osteoarthritic changes and also found that males (58) were more affected than females(42), and the age group of (36-50) were more exposed to knee joint disease ,finally the study recommended that further studies should be done by larger sample size .