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The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the conditions that will be covered in the knee section, including osteoarthritis, ligament pathologies, osteochondral lesions, osteochondritis dissecans, and traction apophyses. Common surgical techniques used to treat knee pathologies are also discussed.
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Robertson, E., Hirschmann, M.T. (2023). Introduction to Knee Joint Conditions and Procedures. In: Van den Wyngaert, T., Gnanasegaran, G., Strobel, K. (eds) Clinical Atlas of Bone SPECT/CT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26449-8_20
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