41-year-old female with questionable medial meniscus tear on exam. Evaluate for soft tissue lesions. Presents with left knee pain. Secondary to the patient's body habitus, a HD coil was not able to be utilized, resulting in slightly suboptimal image quality. Patient motion artifact limits examination.MENISCI: There is a bucket-handle type tear of the medial meniscus with much of the body and posterior horn of the meniscus flipped anteriorly and centrally. There is also a peripheral longitudinal tear of the anterior horn of the lateral meniscus extending to the femoral articular surface. The posterior horn of the lateral meniscus appears intact.ARTICULAR CARTILAGE AND BONE: There is perhaps mild degeneration of the articular cartilage of the lateral facet of the patella inferiorly, but this is equivocal. Subjectively, there appears to be mild diffuse thinning of the articular cartilage of the medial compartment. There is heterogeneous bone marrow signal abnormality consistent with residual islands of red marrow.LIGAMENTS: The cruciate and collateral ligaments appear intact. EXTENSOR MECHANISM: The extensor mechanism appears intact.ADDITIONAL
Bucket handle tear of the medial meniscus and other findings as described above.