Fabellar prevalence, degeneration and association with knee osteoarthritis in the Chinese population

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 13046 - 7
• Main Authors: Hou, Weikun, Xu, Lin, Wang, Jingbo, Wang, Bo, Liu, Lin, Xu, Ke, Cai, Yuanzhen, Guo, Hao, Xu, Peng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 10.09.2019; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/699/1670/407; 692/700/1421/1770; Acupuncture; Adult; Aged; Arthritis; China - epidemiology; Degeneration; Disease Susceptibility; Female; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Knee; Male; Middle Aged; multidisciplinary; Osteoarthritis; Osteoarthritis, Knee - diagnosis; Osteoarthritis, Knee - epidemiology; Osteoarthritis, Knee - etiology; Prevalence; Public Health Surveillance; Radiography; Retrospective Studies; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sclerosis; Sesamoid Bones - diagnostic imaging; Sesamoid Bones - pathology; Young Adult; China

The fabella is a sesamoid bone of the knee that can degenerate in some patients with osteoarthritis. The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence and degeneration grades of fabellae in the Chinese population and to analyse their relationships with subject ages and knee osteoarthritis grad...