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What is a osetophyte formation in the knee mean? where is the medial mensicus root? any pictures of the what it looks like i know that it is inside?

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Dr. Ralph Morgan Lewis answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Knee osteophytes…: Are degenerative changes characterized by spicules of bone growing from the bone. See image: arrows point to osteophytes [source: MRI web clinic] see below for image of medial meniscus roots.

Answered 6/16/2018

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Dr. Ralph Morgan Lewis answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Medial meniscus: See image. Black arrows point to medial meniscus roots; white to lateral meniscus roots. The anterior & posterior cruciate ligaments have been removed to better visualize the roots.

Answered 12/9/2013

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