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Meniscal ossification.

Takatomo Mine·Tosihiko Taguchi·Koichiro Ihara·Hiroshi Tanaka·Tohru Moriwaki·Shinya Kawai
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Meniscal ossicles are rare in the human knee. We present one case. A 57-year-old taxi driver complained of right knee pain and swelling with radiographic findings of a meniscal ossicle. Arthroscopic inspection showed a degenerative and horizontal tear and calcium deposit at the middle and posterior thirds of lateral discoid meniscus. His lateral discoid meniscus, containing the ossicle, was removed. He was asymptomatic at a 3-year follow-up.

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Takatomo Mine, Tosihiko Taguchi, Koichiro Ihara, Hiroshi Tanaka, Tohru Moriwaki, Shinya Kawai. 2003. Meniscal ossification.. https://doi.org/10.1053/jars.2003.50061

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