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Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Weekly Clinicopathological Exercises
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Volume 344:124-131 January 11, 2001 Number 2
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Case 1-2001— A 26-Year-Old Man with a Mass in the Knee
Thomas A. Einhorn, and G. Petur Nielsen

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A 26-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of a mass in the knee.

The patient had been in good health except for a nine-year history of intermittent pain in the right knee. At first the pain occurred only after exertion, especially when he was playing soccer, and then resolved spontaneously. The pain subsequently became more frequent and more intense. Three years before admission, the pain became continuous, although it was less severe after the patient stopped participating in sports. One year before admission, he began to have intense pain in the medial part of the right knee and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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