Magnetic resonance arthrographic demonstration of knee joint communication in isolated popliteal artery cystic adventitial disease
Nontaphon Piyawattanametha, Rahul Gogoi, Tomas Marek, Manju Kalra, Kimberly K. Amrami, Robert J. Spinner · 2026
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Description
Nontaphon Piyawattanametha and co-authors present a 2026 case of a rare cyst disease of the artery behind the knee. The disease grows mucus filled cysts in the artery wall, which can squeeze the vessel and cause calf pain on walking. Standard scans can name the disease, but a link to the knee joint is harder to prove.
The patient was a 44 year old man with bouts of calf cramp pain. Sound and CT scans showed cysts around the artery with mild narrowing. A dye shot into the knee joint, followed by a strong MR scan, proved the cyst joined the joint space. The case backs the joint origin theory of the disease and shows the scan method can settle hard cases.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Nontaphon Piyawattanametha, Rahul Gogoi, Tomas Marek, Manju Kalra, Kimberly K. Amrami, Robert J. Spinner |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 13 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |