Snapping pes anserine syndrome

J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2014 Jan;44(1):41. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2014.0402.

Abstract

The patient was a 25-year-old man who was serving in the military. He was referred to a physical therapist for a progressively worsening painful snapping sensation in the posteromedial left knee region. Prior magnetic resonance imaging for the left knee was interpreted as normal, except for a mild fluid signal about the left pes anserine bursa. The patient was diagnosed with snapping pes anserine syndrome. However, despite 6 weeks of physical therapist intervention, the patient did not improve. A dynamic real-time ultrasound examination was then ordered, which demonstrated that the pes anserine tendons changed position as the knee moved from flexion to extension, sliding across a heterogeneous rounded mass in the posteromedial knee.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Bursa, Synovial / diagnostic imaging
  • Bursa, Synovial / pathology
  • Bursa, Synovial / surgery
  • Bursitis / diagnosis*
  • Bursitis / diagnostic imaging
  • Bursitis / surgery
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Humans
  • Knee Joint / diagnostic imaging
  • Knee Joint / pathology*
  • Knee Joint / surgery
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Pain / diagnosis
  • Pain / etiology*
  • Syndrome
  • Tendons / diagnostic imaging
  • Tendons / physiopathology*
  • Tendons / surgery
  • Ultrasonography