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Demographic and clinical parameters including age, gender, side, and MSKUS findings were documented.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n\nResults:<\/jats:title>\nTwo hundred and seventy-six patients were included in the review. In 21 of them, both knees were evaluated at the same setting (total number of knees evaluated was 297). One hundred and forty-four knees were of the left side. Thirty-three pathologies were identified. 34% of the studies were negative. The most common MSKUS findings were medial meniscal tear (MMT) (20%), Baker's cyst (BC) (16%), and osteoarthritis (OA) (11%). Only one knee of all the knees evaluated in our study showed synovitis. Fifty-three knees (18% of all the knees evaluated) had more than one imaging finding, mosty two and while some had three findings. The most common combination of findings was MMT and BC (8 knees), MMT with OA (8 knees), and MMT with fluid (6 knee). In 67% of the patients who had simultaneous bilateral knee evaluation, at least one knee had no abnormal findings and in 43%, both knees were negative.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n\nConclusions:<\/jats:title>\nMSKUS has the potential for revealing huge spectrum of abnormalities. 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