The knee radiograph checklist is just one of the many pathology checklists that can be used when reporting to ensure that you always actively exclude pathology that is commonly missed; this is particularly helpful in the examination setting, e.g. the FRCR 2B rapid-reporting.
Radiograph
Knee radiographs in an exam setting will have been primarily performed because of a history of pain or trauma.
Knee joint/ capsule
- effusion
- lipohemarthrosis
- pseudogout
- synovial chondromatosis
- septic arthritis
- haemophilic arthropathy
- rheumatoid arthritis
- osteoarthritis
Distal femur
- osteochondral lesion (OCL)
- bone infarct/ avascular necrosis
- non-ossifying fibroma/ fibrous cortical defect
- osteochondroma
- hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
- Ewing's sarcoma
- osteosarcoma
Proximal tibia
- Segond fracture
- reverse Segond fracture
- Pellegrini Stieda lesion
- tibial spine avulsion
- tibial plafond fractures
- Paget's disease
- enchondroma
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