INTRODUCTION Normal menisci of the knee are semilunar structures. Sometimes, a meniscus may be found to be thickened and disc like and is called a discoid meniscus. Such a discoid variant is usually found in the lateral meniscus. Its occurrence in the medial meniscus is extremely rare. CASE REPORT We report a case of an 18-year-old female, who presented to us with knee pain and was found to h...

Allograft INTRODUCTION: Meniscectomy is one of the most common procedures performed in orthopaedic surgery. The meniscus plays a critical role in knee joint biomechanics. With loss of meniscus function there is an increased risk of arthritic changes in the knee. The gold standard treatment for symptomatic meniscus deficiency is allograft transplantation. Current meniscus transplants are associa...

BACKGROUND Meniscus extrusion is a serious and relatively frequent clinical problem. For this reason the role of different risk factors for this pathology is still the subject of debate. The goal of this study was to verify the results of previous theoretical work, based on the mathematical models, regarding a relationship between the cross-section shape of the meniscus and the risk of its extr...

Toward addressing the difficult problems of knee meniscus regeneration, a self-assembling process has been used to re-create the native morphology and matrix properties. A significant problem in such attempts is the recapitulation of the distinct zones of the meniscus, the inner, more cartilaginous and the outer, more fibrocartilaginous zones. In this study, an anisotropic and zonally variant m...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to show the effects on the meniscus of repair applied from the femoral, the femoral-tibial and the tibial surfaces. METHODS In the treatment of meniscocapsular separation, although the accepted gold standard technique in the past was the inside-out suture technique, the current treatment method is all-inside repair methods. The all-inside techniques includ...

conclusions our observations add to the knowledge base of the various causes of meniscus tears; this study also revealed that socio-cultural factors influence and contribute to the mechanism of various types of knee injury. patients and methods this retrospective study was conducted in a tertiary care orthopaedic hospital which caters to a population of 10 million people. we assessed 120 non-at...

The posterior lateral meniscus root (PLMR) provides the circumferential tension required to stabilize the lateral meniscus. Thus, preservation of the PLMR is important to prevent an increase in tibiofemoral contact pressure, which could result in osteoarthritis. We describe an all-arthroscopic approach to the fixation of PLMR using suture anchors through associated posterolateral arthroscopic p...

Background Extrusion of the meniscus has been reported to be correlated with progression of osteoarthritis. In cases with osteochondral lesions after extrusion of the meniscus, meniscal transplantation was the only surgical intervention. Recently, a novel procedure called arthroscopic centralisation has been developed to restore the meniscus function by centralising the midbody of the extruded ...

Removal of injured/damaged meniscus, a vital fibrocartilaginous load-bearing tissue, impairs normal knee function and predisposes patients to osteoarthritis. Meniscus tissue engineering solution is one option to improve outcomes and relieve pain. In an attempt to fabricate knee meniscus grafts three layered wedge shaped silk meniscal scaffold system was engineered to mimic native meniscus archi...

COMPRESSION: RELATIONSHIPS WITH TISSUE COMPOSITION *Bursac P; *York, A M; Deuerling J M; *Kuznia P M, *Bianchi J R * Regeneration Technologies, Inc., Alachua, FL [email protected] INTRODUCTION: Tissue banks employ processing methods such as freezing or exposure to chemicals to enhance safety and shelf life of allograft cartilaginous tissues. However, these processing methods may alter the tissue...