ABSTRACT
GOAL: This survey has been realized in order to show the diagnostic interest of the standard radiography in the non traumatic knee's pain. OBJECTIVES: 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. PATIENT AND METHOD: 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. CONCLUSION: This survey reveals the importance diagnostic of the x-ray and the wealth of the pathology of the knee in Africa particularly in Togo.
