Prevalence and MRI-Anatomic Correlation of Bone Cysts in Osteoarthritic Knees
Caroline Pouders1,2,
Michel De Maeseneer3,
Peter Van Roy1,
Jan Gielen4,
Annietta Goossens5 and
Maryam Shahabpour2
1 Department of Experimental Anatomy, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Laarbeeklaan
103, 1090 Brussels, Belgium.
2 Department of Radiology, AZ-Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels,
Belgium.
3 Division of Radiological Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem,
NC.
4 Department of Radiology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
5 Department of Pathology, AZ-Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels,
Belgium.

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Fig. 1 —87-year-old man with osteoarthritis. Sagittal T1-weighted spin-echo
image of weight-bearing area of tibial specimen. Note surface of cartilage
(white arrows) and cartilage-subchondral bone interface (black
arrows). S = subchondral bone.
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Fig. 2B —Weight-bearing area of tibial specimen in 82-year-old man with
osteoarthritis. In sagittal T2-weighted gradient-echo image, hyperintense
cystic structure in weight-bearing area is seen (arrow).
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Fig. 3A —Weight-bearing area of tibial specimen in 69-year-old man with
osteoarthritis. Sagittal T1 spin-echo image shows hypointense intraosseous
cyst with hypointense margins (arrow). No joint space communication
is seen.
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Fig. 3B —Weight-bearing area of tibial specimen in 69-year-old man with
osteoarthritis. Sagittal T2 gradient-echo image shows hyperintense
intraosseous cyst surrounded by hypointense margins (arrow).
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Fig. 3C —Weight-bearing area of tibial specimen in 69-year-old man with
osteoarthritis. Sagittal anatomic slice of same region shows rounded cystlike
structure containing amorphous fragments (arrow).
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Fig. 4B —Interspinous area of tibial specimen in 82-year-old woman with
osteoarthritis. Sagittal T1 spin-echo image shows hypointense cystlike
structure surrounded by margin with lower signal intensity than cyst
(arrows).
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Fig. 5 —Histologic stain of cyst in 82-year-old woman with osteoarthritis.
Fibrous connective tissue layer with adipocytes and osteoblasts is seen (F).
Cyst cavity (C) contains necrotic bone fragments with dead denuclearized
cells. (Harris hematoxylin)
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