title: Pigmented villonodular synovitis. A follow-up study.
abstract: Pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVS) was diagnosed in 25 patients during the period 1950--76. Twenty-two of the patients were re-examined 2--28 years later. Three patients with local affection of tendon sheaths, treated by excision, were all free of symptoms at follow-up. Nineteen patients all with unilateral knee joint affection were divided into two groups according to peroperative findings, 6 localized PVS and 13 diffuse PVS. The 6 patients with localized PVS all had normal knee movement at follow-up, whereas the 13 with diffuse involvement had varying impaired knee mobility.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009068:Movement; D011379:Prognosis; D013585:Synovitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013586:Synovitis, Pigmented Villonodular / Q000175:diagnosis*