Spontaneous osteonecrosis of the knee (SONK)

AM Filip; SB Broeck

doi:10.5334/jbr-btr.89

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Spontaneous osteonecrosis of the knee (SONK)

Authors:

AM Filip ,

Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Clinique St-Luc, 5004 Bouge (Namur), Belgium, BE

SB Van den Broeck

Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Clinique St-Luc, 5004 Bouge (Namur), Belgium, BE

Abstract

An 80-year-old woman presented at the emergency department with a sudden non-traumatic pain of the left knee. Supine decubitus plain radiographs of the left knee (Fig. A) reported no evidence of acute traumatic lesion, osteoarthritis bone remodeling, chondrocalcinosis nor mild joint effusion. Chondrocalcinosis crisis was subsequently considered as the final diagnosis and the patient received symptomatic treatment.

How to Cite: Filip A, Broeck SV den. Spontaneous osteonecrosis of the knee (SONK). JBR-BTR. 2014;97(4):268. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/jbr-btr.89

Published on 01 Jul 2014.

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