Turkish Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2003 , Vol 49 , Num 4

Sinovyal Kondromatozis: Olgu Sunumu

İmdat Özkul 1 ,İlknur Aktaş 2 ,Kenan AKGÜN 3
1 Özel ROMATEM FizikTedavi ve Rehabilitasyon Özel Dal Merkezi, İstanbul
2 Fatih Sultan Mehmet Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Fiziksel Tıp ve Rehabilitasyon Kliniği, İstanbul, Türkiye
3 Arnavutköy Devlet Hastanesi, Radyoloji Kliniği, İstanbul, Türkiye

Synovial chondromatosis is a benign arthropathy characterized by metaplasia in synovial membranes that can produce detached particles of cartilage. The combination of clinical observation, x-ray examination and pathological diagnosis is essential to the diagnosis of synovial chondromatosis. The present study reports a patient with synovial chondromatosis and reviews relevant literature

Keywords : Synovial chondromatosis, knee pain, magnetic reso- nance imaging