Staged Arthroscopic Reconstructive Surgery for Multiple Ligament Injuries of the Knee

Staged arthroscopic reconstructive surgery for multiple ligament injuries of the knee.

PURPOSE To review treatment outcome of our staged protocol for multiple ligament injuries of the knee. METHODS 21 men who were treated for multiple ligament injuries of the knee and had completed at least one year of rehabilitation were evaluated. Patients were examined under anaesthesia and then by diagnostic arthroscopy. Arthroscopic reconstructive procedures for injured cruciate ligaments ...

Arthroscopic surgery for osteoarthritis of the knee?

Knee ligament injuries in children.

Nine children who were less than fourteen years old and had open physes and ligament injuries of the knee were studied. Despite an initial thorough physical and roentgenographic evaluation, the full extent of the lesion was determined only at operation in seven of the nine patients. The intercondylar eminence of the tibia was avulsed in five patients, four of whom had associated collateral liga...

Complications Following Arthroscopic Knee Surgery

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Does arthroscopic knee surgery work?

A recent randomized trial from the Finnish Degenerative Meniscal Lesion Study Group was published in the New England Journal of Medicine and attempted to determine the efficacy of partial meniscectomy without osteoarthritis. Patients were randomized to either arthroscopic partial meniscectomy or sham surgery. The authors concluded that the clinical outcomes after arthroscopic partial meniscecto...