Knee radiograph (checklist)

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• knee x-ray checklist

The knee radiograph checklist is just one of the many pathology checklists that can be used when reporting to ensure that you always actively exclude pathology that is commonly missed; this is particularly helpful in the examination setting, e.g. the FRCR 2B rapid-reporting.

Radiograph

Knee radiographs in an exam setting will have been primarily performed because of a history of pain or trauma.

Knee joint/ capsule

• effusion
• lipohemarthrosis
• pseudogout
• synovial chondromatosis
• septic arthritis
• haemophilic arthropathy
• rheumatoid arthritis
• osteoarthritis

Distal femur

• osteochondral lesion (OCL)
• bone infarct/ avascular necrosis
• non-ossifying fibroma/ fibrous cortical defect
• osteochondroma
• hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
• Ewing's sarcoma
• osteosarcoma

Proximal tibia

• Segond fracture
• reverse Segond fracture
• Pellegrini Stieda lesion
• tibial spine avulsion
• tibial plafond fractures
• Paget's disease
• enchondroma

Proximal fibula

Patella

• fracture
• bipartite patella
• tripartite patella

Soft tissues

• gouty tophi
• prepatellar bursitis
• calcified atherosclerosis

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