Open AccessClinical Characteristics and Treatment of Spontaneous Osteonecrosis of Medial Tibial Plateau
Author(s) -
Weiming Yang,
Caiqiong Zhao,
Zhaoyu Lu,
Wei Yang,
Lin Dong,
Xiufeng Cao
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
chinese medical journal/chinese medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.537
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 2542-5641
pISSN - 0366-6999
DOI - 10.4103/0366-6999.244113
Subject(s) - medicine , unicompartmental knee arthroplasty , magnetic resonance imaging , lesion , stage (stratigraphy) , surgery , medial meniscus , sagittal plane , retrospective cohort study , nuclear medicine , radiology , osteoarthritis , pathology , paleontology , alternative medicine , biology
In a small proportion of cases, spontaneous osteonecrosis of the knee (SONK) involves the medial tibial plateau (MT). Here, we introduced the clinical characteristics of spontaneous osteonecrosis of the MT and unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) as the favorable treatment for this situation based on a retrospective case study.