1. Micro-fragmented adipose tissue for treatment of knee osteoarthritis with Baker's cyst: a case study.
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Arthurs JR, Desmond CM, TerKonda SP, and Shapiro SA
- Subjects
- Abdominoplasty, Aged, Arthrocentesis, Drainage, Female, Humans, Injections, Intra-Articular, Osteoarthritis, Knee complications, Osteoarthritis, Knee diagnostic imaging, Popliteal Cyst complications, Popliteal Cyst diagnostic imaging, Ultrasonography, Osteoarthritis, Knee surgery, Popliteal Cyst surgery, Subcutaneous Fat, Abdominal transplantation
- Abstract
Adipose-derived therapies have increased in popularity for treatment of painful orthopaedic conditions, such as osteoarthritis. We report the passage of fat into a Baker's cyst after injection of micro-fragmented adipose tissue in a patient with bilateral knee arthritis. Following fat grafting, the patient required drainage of fatty fluid from within the Baker's cyst on multiple occasions. Approximately 3 months postprocedure, she began to notice an improvement in her knee pain with no further recurrence of pain or swelling from her Baker's cyst., Competing Interests: Competing interests: None declared., (© BMJ Publishing Group Ltd (unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.)
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- 2018
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