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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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.

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CREATORNontaphon Piyawattanametha, Rahul Gogoi, Tomas Marek, Manju Kalra, Kimberly K. Amrami, Robert J. Spinner
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE13 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13579137

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