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Swelling of the left knee
My Aunt is suffering from swelling of her left knee, the doctor drains the liquid from the knee once every 2 months. He says this is the only solution. Her xray and echo show no damage to her knee.. kindly advise.
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Recurrent knee effussion shud always be evaluated furthur...
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Atleast ask the doctor to send for synovial fluid analysis once he drains it for basic info
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Dr. Rahul Kumar Pandey
Orthopedic surgeon
10 yrs exp
Lucknow
This is recurrent knee effusion.
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MRI Knee Joint and fluid analysis needs to be done
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