The incidence of meniscal tear injuries is rising, predominately due to the sporting activities young adults. There are different methods in orthopedics management. An Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy (APM) most practiced orthopedic procedure globally. However, recent literature reported serious concerns about its positive outcome. Meniscal repair another recommended technique and growing rapi...

The occurrence of posterior root tear of both the lateral and medial menisci, combined with anterior cruciate ligament rupture, is rare. Problems may be encountered such as the difficulty to access the medial meniscal root tear, the confusing circumstances about which structure to repair first, and the possibility of the tunnel for each repair to become taut inside the tibial bone. We present t...

OBJECTIVE To prospectively investigate the healing process of meniscal repair with plain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and indirect MR arthrography and to compare the two methods. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty patients with an arthroscopic meniscal repair without clinical symptoms underwent conventional and indirect MR arthrography of the affected knee, 3, 6 and 12 months after the index op...

Dear Editor, The menisci are important tissues in the healthy knee due to their shock absorption and load distribution properties. Meniscal tears are important clinically due to pain and swelling and the mechanical symptoms they cause such as locking. The arthroscopic anatomical classifi cation of meniscal tears was described by Dandy in 1990.1 In the paper, he noted that the majority (69%) of ...

BACKGROUND Radial transection of the peripheral fibers of the meniscus could render it nonfunctional; however, the biomechanical consequences of a complete lateral meniscal radial tear and repair in human specimens have not been elucidated. HYPOTHESIS A complete radial tear will exhibit knee contact mechanics approaching those of total meniscectomy. Repair of complete radial tears will re-cre...

Of 353 arthroscopic peripheral meniscal repairs performed using the "outside to inside" suturing technique with rasp preparation of the tear region, 74 repairs (50 medial and 24 lateral) were assessed by second-look arthroscopy and are the basis of this report. Results were graded as either healed, incompletely healed, or failed; these findings were correlated with clinical symptoms and associa...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the incidence of lateral meniscal tears associated with lateral tibial plateau fractures and report the clinical outcomes of meniscal treatment with internal fixation of fractures. Materials and Methods All lateral tibial plateau fractures (Schatzker types II and III) in skeletally mature patients treated operatively at our institution between ...

Meniscal cysts are rare and often are a result of extrusion of synovial fluid through a tear of the meniscus, resulting in a one-way valve effect of the tear. Arthroscopic partial meniscectomy of the meniscus with intra-articular cyst drainage has become the standard of care. We report a case of an unusually large symptomatic medial meniscal cyst, situated postero-medially and pressing on the p...

We present 2 cases of severe, rapidly progressive chondral disease in the lateral compartment within 12 months after meniscectomy. In both cases, the lateral compartment was salvaged with simultaneously performed cartilage repair techniques and meniscal transplantation. The first case is of a 16-year-old boy who suffered a complex irreparable posterior horn lateral meniscus tear that was treate...