Our knee joints take a lot of pounding throughout our lives, which can eventually lead to osteoarthritis and other knee injuries. Knee replacement surgery (knee arthroplasty) is designed to restore ...

The radiograph shows knee effusion, which can be seen as water density above the patella and anterior to the fibula. The next best step in treatment is to perform arthrocentesis to evaluate the fluid ...

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Right knee arthrocentesis reveals 55,000 WBCs, 80% PMNs, Gram stain negative, and the presence of needle-shaped negatively birefringent crystals in PMNs. Culture at 48 hours was negative. Serum uric ...