Chan Y S, Wang C J, Shin C H
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Kweishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China.
J Arthroplasty. 2000 Dec;15(8):1068-72. doi: 10.1054/arth.2000.9053.
A symptomatic popliteal cyst after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is rare, occurring most frequently as a result of intra-articular knee pathology. We present a case of a large dissecting popliteal cyst 7 years after TKA with symptoms of severe calf pain and functional disability. The symptomatic cyst was excised completely in a first-stage operation, and the severely worn TKA was corrected by a second-stage surgical procedure. The patient in this report was pain free and had satisfactory range of knee motion 5 years after the index revision TKA, without recurrence of effusion or popliteal cyst formation.
