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What does large knee effusion and synovitis mean? also soft edema anterior to the patella and proximal tibia? does full-thickness cartilage fissure of the patellar ridge need surgery? please help explain thanks?

Q: what does large knee effusion and synovitis mean? also soft edema anterior to the patella and proximal tibia? does full-thickness cartilage fissure of the patellar ridge need surgery? please help explain thanks?

: It means what it says. Cant comment on surgery without seeing you and films. You have some knee injury and it is reacting to it.

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Dr. Clarence Grim answered

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It means what it says. Cant comment on surgery without seeing you and films. You have some knee injury and it is reacting to it.

Answered 9/19/2022

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A member asked:

What does large knee effusion and synovitis mean? also soft edema anterior to the patella and proximal tibia? does full-thickness cartilage fissure of the patellar ridge need surgery? please help explain thanks?

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