Ghost meniscus

Case contributed by Chris O'Donnell
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Trauma to the knee with swelling ? meniscal tear

Patient Data

Age: 65
Gender: Male
mri

Radial tear of the medial mensical body, seen well in the sagittal and axial planes.

On a particular slice of the coronal plane (directly through the tear) it looks as though the mensicus is absent with a mere bright residual shell hence the term "ghost".

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