MR Imaging of Intra- and Periarticular Cyst-Like Lesions of the Knee Joint in Workers with Occupational Kneeling
Figure 3
Fluid filled synovial clefts of Hoffa’s fat pad in the knees of 2 floor layers. In these sagittal proton density fat-saturated images of the right knee in a 43-year-old male floor layers with mild (a) and a 50-year-old male floor layer with moderate (b) effusion of the inferior, horizontal Hoffa’s cleft there is a communication with the superior cleft (*) along the ligamentum mucosum (black arrow head). Arrow, anterior transverse ligament; white arrow head, anterior cruciate ligament; P, patella.
