In-Office Needle Arthroscopy (IONA): may a traditionally orthopedic procedure enter the portfolio of interventional radiology?
- 15 May 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in La radiologia medica
- Vol. 127 (7), 784-787
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11547-022-01497-2
Abstract
Arthroscopy has historically proved to allow accurate evaluation of the intra-articular structures of the knee, thanks the possibility of direct vision and palpation, and reduced perioperative morbidity. Over the last decade, the diagnostic role of arthroscopy has been further increased by its quite effective use in the treatment of the lesions. The recent and important advances in the technological-instrumental field have produced a safe visualization system used to pose a diagnosis in an outpatient setting, employing reduced-diameter arthroscopes (In-Office Needle Arthroscopy, IONA). The accuracy of MRI is unanimously recognized, but it shows some weaknesses when compared to arthroscopy that is the gold standard technique in case of chondral lesions, meniscal tears, or atypical synovial pathologies. In this short report, we propose the interventional musculoskeletal radiologist as possible performer of IONA, in specific settings, providing the patient, suffering from acute and chronic knee joint diseases, with a complete diagnostic approach, when MRI is not definitive.Keywords
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