A rare case of pigmented villonodular synovitis after unicompartmental knee replacement: a case report

doi:10.1186/1757-1626-2-9076

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A rare case of pigmented villonodular synovitis after unicompartmental knee replacement: a case report

Paraskumar Mohanlal , Dilip Pillai and Sunil Jain

Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Medway Maritime Hospital, Gillingham, Kent, ME7 5NY, UK

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Cases Journal 2009, 2:9076doi:10.1186/1757-1626-2-9076


Published:	23 November 2009

Abstract

Pigmented villonodular synovitis is a benign proliferative disease involving the synovium. Pigmented villonodular synovitis is rare after replacement arthroplasty and has not been recognised and reported as a cause of failure of unicompartmental knee replacement in the literature.