title: [Contribution of the x-ray to the diagnosis of the non traumatic knee's pain in the teaching hospitals Tokoin and campus of Lomé].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This survey has been realized in order to show the diagnostic interest of the standard radiography in the non traumatic knee's pain.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The main objectives of this work were to describe the elementary lesions, the etiological aspects of the non traumatic knee's pain and to list the met pathologies.
  
  
  METHODS
  It was about a prospective survey of six months (december 2007-may 2008) track in the departments of radiology of the Teaching Hospitals of Lomé and on a population of 187 patients enduring a non traumatic knee's pain.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The frequency was of 2.5%. The average of age was of 48.55 years (extreme: 18 and 92 years). The feminine sex (63.10%) was the most represented. The housewives were the most represented (36.36%). of The bodily mass indication was consisted between 09 and 42 Kg/m2s with an average of 25.65 Kg/m2s. The osteophyte (26.67%) was the most observed elementary radiographic lesion. The arthrosic knee (47.71%) was the dominant pathology and the chondrocalcinose (02.74%) least represented. A predominance of the tricompartimentale arthrosic knee (38.46%) was cleared itself. The malformatives abnormalities were in 58.62% of the osteoarthritis cases seat.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This survey reveals the importance diagnostic of the x-ray and the wealth of the pathology of the knee in Africa particularly in Togo.
authors: Service de Radiologie CHU Tokoin de Lome 05 BP 68 Lome 05, Togo. agoda_koussema@yahoo.fr
authors: L K
authors: LK
authors: Agoda-Koussema
authors: O
authors: O
authors: Oniankitan
authors: G A
authors: GA
authors: Abalo
authors: D D
authors: DD
authors: Ouro-Kefia
authors: K M
authors: KM
authors: Awobanou
authors: K G
authors: KG
authors: N'Dakena
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D018771:Arthralgia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology; D002805:Chondrocalcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology; D009790:Occupations; D020370:Osteoarthritis, Knee / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology; D054850:Osteophyte / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011859:Radiography; D014037:Togo / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult