Knee lateral view
Clinical indication:
Ligament injury, fracture, degenerative joint disease and arthritis of knee joint
Region:
Knee joint, proximal tibia/ fibula, distal femur.
Patient’s Position:
Turn the patient to the affected side flexed and extend other extremity behind it.
A flexion of 20°-30° is performed as this position relaxes the muscle and shows the maximum volume of joint cavity. Patient is placed in lateral decubitus position. Place the opposite leg of filming slide in front in flexion state. While flexing the filming knee 15°-20° placed bilateral condyles of femur to be perpendicular to IR.
Cassette:
Size: 8’’x10’’ Orientation: Portrait
FFD/SID:
100cm
Central ray:
Project 5° cephalic toward knee joint.
Grid:
No
Respiration:
Not related.
Exposure factors:
60-70kVp 7-10mAs
Collimation:
Include distal portion of femur, tibia and proximal of fibula.
Related X-ray views
- Skull AP view
- Skull PA Caldwell (0°) view
- Skull PA Caldwell (15°) view
- Skull PA Caldwell (25°-30°) view
- Skull AP axial view / Skull Townes view
- Skull Submentovertex (SMV) view
- Sella Turcica lateral view
- Lateral oblique view / Mastoid Sculler’s view
- Stenver’s view of temporal bone
- Radiograph of foot:
- Radiograph of ankle:
- Leg radiograph:
- Knee radiograph:
- Femur radiograph:
- Wrist PA View
- Wrist lateral View
- Wrist ulnar deviation View
- Hand AP View
- Hand lateral View
- Forearm AP View
- Forearm lateral View
- Elbow AP View
- Elbow lateral View
- Humerus AP View
- Chest PA View
- Chest AP View
- Chest lateral View
- Chest lateral decubitus View/cross table lateral chest view
- Chest AP lordotic view/Apicogram
- Cervical spine radiograph:
- Thoracic spine radiograph:
- Lumbar spine radiograph:
- Sacrum AP view
- Sacrum lateral view
- Coccyx AP view
- Coccyx lateral view