Address for Correspondence: Dr. Nisha Goyal, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Gian Sagar Medical College And Hospital, Ram Nagar, Banur, National Highway 64, Jansla, Patiala, Punjab 140601, India. Mobile no.: 09815602904, E-Mail: [email protected] The objective of present study was done to provide a base line data of morphometric parameters of lateral meniscus. Variations of le...

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...

INTRODUCTION: The anterior cruciat e ligament (ACL) is one of the most frequently injured ligaments in the knee. ACL injury often leads to significant functional impairment in athletes and is associated with induction of degenerative joint disease. ACL injuries are regarded as “the beginning of the end of the knee”. This is because the incidence of meniscal pathology and chondral defects increa...

The human knee menisci are important structures to, proper knee joint function. At present, little data exists describing the meniscal kinematics of the intact knee. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to determine in-vivo meniscal kinematic motion of the non-injured knee during unloaded knee flexion through use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Seven females and three males (mean age...

OBJECTIVES Preclinical studies using large animal models play an intergral part in translational research. For this study, our objectives were: to develop and validate arthroscopic approaches to four compartments of the stifle joint as determined via the gross and arthroscopic anatomy of the cranial and caudal aspects of the joint. METHODS Cadaveric hindlimbs (n = 39) were harvested from matu...

Our aim was to examine the potential of autologous perichondral tissue to form a meniscal replacement. In 18 mature sheep we performed a complete medial meniscectomy. The animals were then divided into two groups: 12 had a meniscal replacement using strips of autologous perichondral tissue explanted from the lower rib (group G) and six (group C) served as a control group without a meniscal repl...

Procedures used by tissue banks in selecting meniscal allografts that will best restore normal contact pressure at the time of surgical implantation into a recipient's knee should be improved. Our objective was to develop regression equations that use dimensions measured from magnetic resonance (MR) images of the contralateral knee to predict values of important meniscal parameters of the injur...

The aim of the study was to trace the transverse ligament of the knee in staged human embryos. Investigations were carried out on 42 embryos of developmental stages 18-23 (44-56 postovulatory days) from the collection of the Department of Anatomy in Poznań. It was found that in embryos at stage 19 peripheral condensation of the mesenchymal interzone of knee joint, located anteriorly to the prim...

The purpose of this study was to test whether the menisci displace under joint compression combined with internal-external torques and anterior-posterior forces at fixed flexion angles. We further determined differences in displacements between the medial and lateral menisci. Loads were applied to the joint, and joint load and displacements were measured. Meniscal displacements were measured ra...