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| Sonographic Comparison Of Femoral Articular Cartilage Size In Normal Knee Joint In Various Age Groups And Gender |
Mr Abdullahi Abubakar, Dr Sayid Amir Gilani, Dr Raham Bacha, Mr Abdalmalek Ismail
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Abstract:
Background: Although musculoskeletal ultrasound is a successful initial screening tool for measuring articular cartilage thickness, we often find typical patients who have no diagnosis knee pathology (i.e. OA), or any knee surgery. Objective(s): To compare the size of the femoral articular cartilage in normal knee joint in different age groups and gender by ultrasonography. Methodology: All the normal patient without knee surgery or any history of knee pathology were included minimum and maximum age were 20 to 50years .and Toshiba xerio 2000 ultrasound machine using a higher-resolution linear probe 7-15Mhz to test the knee's superficial structure the data was analyzed and calculated using SPSS and for qualitative data percentage was calculated and pie chart were also shown Mean + S D and percentage. Results: A total of 236 normal knee joint [left and right] were subjected, Gender reported in frequency and percentage, males were-114 [48.3%], and females were 122 [51.7%]. Gender explained change in the size of femoral cartilage at the medial facet as compared with the lateral and central facet with non-sign of differences in both gender p=value 0.228% 0.737% 0.027%. While regarding the age group it was characterize in six groups and the result were consider the significance change in the lateral facet of both gender when compered between the ages of six group of 20 to 45years, similarly the central and medial facet for all the six group were all same. In final out of 236 subjected patient regarding the side of the scanned patient in left and right side to compare the mean of articular cartilage in male and female through the intercondylar fossa (IF) in lateral, central, and medial mean was (L=1.93±05), (C=2.31±53), and (M=1.93±31). While the Right side n=118 mean were (L=1.8822), (C=2.2814), and (M=2.0008). Conclusion(s): We detected a significant difference in age group at lateral and medial facet and also there is significant number in medial side on gender using ultrasound parameters no other laboratory or population of metrics have proven useful for discrimination. The future comparison study will be helpful for early diagnosis of articular cartilage in such a patient.
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