R adiology C ase of the M onth
Recurrent Knee Pain in a Young Athlete
Shiva Nagalingam, BS, BA; Mandy Weidenhaft, MD
A 22-year-old male collegiate basketball player with a history of right knee pain presents with pain and swelling of his right knee. Physical exam reveals local swelling and tenderness over the right proximal tibial-fibular joint.
Figure 1: Frontal radiograph of the knee, which demonstrates a 2.2 x 1.7 cm rounded calcific density (black arrow) overlying the right tibiofibular joint.
Figure 2: A lateral radiograph of the knee, which demonstrates the density (black arrow) and confirms it’s location within the tibiofibular joint.
J La State Med Soc VOL 166 May/June 2014 125
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