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British Medical Bulletin 2007 84(1):1-4; doi:10.1093/bmb/ldm035
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Norman Vetter, Editor-in-Chief

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This quarter's edition of the British Medical Bulletin contains the usual fascinating cross-section of new ideas in medicine and biomedical science.

We begin, however, with a systematic review on Magnetic Resonance Imaging Versus Arthroscopy in the Diagnosis of Knee Pathology (Page 5) by Crawford, Walley, Bridgman and Nicola Maffulli from Keele University in the UK.

They make the point that MRI is considered of great aid in the diagnosis of knee lesions. Most diagnostic studies comparing MRI and arthroscopy have shown good diagnostic performance in detecting lesions of the menisci and cruciate ligaments. Nevertheless, arthroscopy has remained the reference standard for the diagnosis of internal derangements of the knee, against which alternative diagnostic modalities should be compared. They took the ‘Gold standard’ to be arthroscopy, and undertook a systematic review of magnetic resonance imaging and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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