(Fig 5-D.13) Osteolysis and Granulomatous Particle Disease

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📌 Osteolysis and Granulomatous Particle Disease

✅ Introduction

• Osteolysis, also known as particle disease and aggressive granulomatosis, is a cell-mediated biological process initiated by macrophage phagocytosis of particle debris. 
• This process results in an aseptic foreign body granulomatous reaction, with regions of osteolysis filled with granulation tissue containing phagocytosed particulate debris. 
• Particles from bone cement, polyethylene, metal, and ceramic have all been implicated in this process. 
• Osteolysis is one of the leading causes of late reoperations in patients who undergo Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA).

• Osteolysis occurs much less commonly in knee arthroplasties relative to hip arthroplasties. 
• It most frequently occurs along the periphery of the femoral condyles or tibial condyles.

 

Common Locations Around TKA

• Osteolysis can occur anywhere around a TKA, although it is particularly common in certain anatomic regions, such as near the attachments of the collateral ligaments of the femur, along the periphery of the component, and along the access channels to the cancellous bone of the tibia.

 

✅ Polyethylene Wear and Its Effects

• Polyethylene wear occurs through complex motions, primarily along the articulations of the tibial polyethylene insert and the metallic femoral component, but also between the tibial polyethylene insert and the metal baseplate. 
• Over time, surface wear leads to delamination, pitting, and fatigue failure of the implant, releasing particles. 
• This wear is usually associated with painful synovitis, crepitus, and grinding with joint motion. 
• The smallest polyethylene-wear particles induce a cytokine-mediated, intra-articular inflammatory reaction, often referred to as "particle disease." 
• This inflammatory process starts as proliferative synovitis, manifesting as new-onset joint pain and effusion. 
• Polyethylene particles eventually migrate into bone-cement and bone-implant interfaces, causing geographic osteolysis through cytokine-mediated upregulation of osteoclasts and downregulation of osteoblasts. 
• Though this process progresses slowly, it ultimately leads to implant loosening and necessitates surveillance and revision.

 

✅ Imaging and Detection

• MRI is more sensitive than radiographs for detecting osteolysis. 
• MR imaging accurately localizes and quantifies bone loss around curved implants and assesses the intracapsular burden of particle disease. 
• Recent evidence suggests that MRI with metal artifact reduction allows for the detection of granulomatous tissue due to particles and synovitis before radiographic evidence of osteolysis is visible.

 

References

1. AJR 2014; 202:W76–W86
2. Semin Musculoskelet Radiol 2019;23:e20–e35.
3. Semin Musculoskelet Radiol 2017;21:147–164.
4. RadioGraphics 2015; 35:1483–1501.

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