Publications by authors named "Christopher Kester"
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- * A case involving a 65-year-old female NF1 patient revealed an intra-articular neurofibroma during surgery for a femur fracture, leading to difficulty in surgical visualization due to a large mass near the knee joint that connected to Hoffa's fat pad.
- * The discovery of this rare intra-articular neurofibroma emphasizes the need for more research into its relation to joint issues such as neuropathic arthropathy, given the limited existing literature on the topic.
Meniscal tears are among the most common knee injuries encountered by an orthopaedic surgeon. Once treated with total meniscectomy, meniscal preservation is now the standard of care. Not all meniscal tears are repairable, and meniscal allograft transplantation has become an integral part of the preservation algorithm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGout is a common inflammatory crystal deposition disease that occurs in many joints throughout the body. Active gout is most often associated with painful synovitis causing searing joint pains, but gout can also produce large masses of space-occupying deposits called tophi. Tophi are most frequently seen in juxta-articular locations with or without bony erosion and are often misdiagnosed as degenerative joint disease.
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