Can magnetic resonance imaging findings predict the degree of knee joint laxity in patients undergoing anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction?

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Tae Kyun Kim³  Min Soo Je³  Ja-Young Choi⁴  Chong Bum Chang¹  Moon Jong Chang² 

[1] Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Hospital, 5 Gil 20, Boramae-road, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 156-707, Korea;Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, #81, Irwon-Ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-710, Korea;Joint Reconstruction Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 300 Gumidong, Bundangu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea;Department of Radiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

关键词: Prediction of laxity;    Magnetic Resonance Imaging;    Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury;   

Others  :  1125522
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2474-15-214

 received in 2013-12-20, accepted in 2014-06-17,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

The present study was performed to determine whether MRI findings can predict the degree of knee joint laxity in patients undergoing ACL reconstruction and whether the accuracy of the prediction is affected by the MRI acquisition time.

Methods

We assessed prospectively collected data of 154 knees with ACL tears. The presence or absence of four primary findings of ACL tears, i.e., nonvisualization, discontinuity, abnormal signal intensity, and abnormal shape of the ACL, and five secondary findings, i.e., anterior translation of the tibia relative to the femur (≥7 mm), posterior cruciate ligament angle (<105°), bone contusion, Segond fracture, and the deep sulcus sign, were determined. Knee joint laxity was assessed using the Lachman and pivot shift tests. The associations between MRI findings and clinically assessed knee joint laxity were analyzed and compared between subgroups (≤3 months from injury to MRI, 89 knees; >3 months, 65 knees).

Results

Nonvisualization was related to the results of the Lachman test [Odds ratio (OR), 2.6; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.2–5.5]. Anterior translation of the tibia relative to the femur was related to the results of the pivot shift test (OR, 3.8; 95% CI, 1.6–9.4). In subgroup comparisons of the early and late MRI groups, anterior translation of the tibia relative to the femur was related to the results of the pivot shift test in the early MRI group (OR, 4.5; 95% CI, 1.4–14.4). In contrast, no MRI findings had statistically significant relationships with physical findings in the late MRI group.

Conclusions

Our study indicates that MRI findings may have some usefulness for predicting the grade of knee laxity in patients with symptomatic ACL injury, but its value is limited, especially in patients with a longer time interval between injury and the performance of MRI.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Chang et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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