Author	Thijn, Cornelis Jacob Pieter. author
Title	Arthrography of the Knee Joint [electronic resource] / by Cornelis Jacob Pieter Thijn
Imprint	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1979
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46398-3
Descript	XII, 158 p. online resource

It is a great pleasure to introduce this book and its writer to the reader. Dr. Thijn has been interested in double contrast studies since he wrote his thesis on the double contrast examinaยญ tion of the colon. It would sound facetious to state that after he exhausted this field, he was in need of some other area where the same technique could be used. However, in the same exact and thorough way as in his colon studies, he has examined the knee joint. Considering that the knee is one of the most heavily taxed joints in man, with a multitude of afflictions, many of them closely connected with the age of the individual, radiological investigaยญ tion has shown very few innovations over the decades. The true anteroposterior and lateral projections were ̃ and still are ̃ the mainstay of the investigation. Projections of the intercondylar fossa, and true patellar projections were used incidentally. Just prior to World War II the advent of arthrography as a double contrast investigation, as promoted by Oberholzer, was a real breakthrough

1 History of Arthrography -- 2 Technique of Double Contrast Arthrography -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Injection of Contrast Media -- 2.3 Arthrography -- 2.4 Aftercare and Complications of Arthrography -- 3 Meniscal Lesions -- 3.1 Specific Anatomy -- 3.2 Meniscal Functions -- 3.3 Friction and Lubrication -- 3.4 Etiology of Meniscal Lesions -- 3.5 Normal Radiologic Anatomy of the Menisci -- 3.6 Meniscal Lesions -- 3.7 Correlation Between Arthrography and Arthroscopy -- 4 Lesions of the Patellofemoral Joint -- 4.1 Anatomy and Physiology of the Patellofemoral Joint -- 4.2 Articular Cartilage -- 4.3. Etiology of Patellar Chondropathy -- 4.4 Radiologic Diagnosis of Patellar Chondropathy -- 4.5 Correlation Between Double Contrast Arthrography and Arthroscopy -- 5 Cruciate Ligaments -- 5.1 Anatomy of the Cruciate Ligaments -- 5.2 Radiologic Technique -- 5.3 Radiologic Anatomy of the Cruciate Ligaments -- 5.4 Etiology of Cruciate Ligament Ruptures -- 5.5 Cruciate Ligament Pathology -- 5.6 Accuracy of Arthrographic Cruciate Ligament Diagnosis -- 6 Joint Capsule, Collateral Ligaments, Hoffa Body and Bursae -- 6.1 Capsule, Hoffa Body, and Collateral Ligaments -- 6.2 Bursae -- 7 Lesions of the Articular Cartilage -- 7.1 General Aspects -- 7.2 Etiology and Double Contrast Arthrography -- References