Meniscus degeneration due to age or injury can lead to osteoarthritis. Although promising, current cell-based approaches show limited success. Here we present three-dimensional methacrylated gelatin (GelMA) scaffolds patterned via projection stereolithography to emulate the circumferential alignment of cells in native meniscus tissue. Cultured human avascular zone meniscus cells from normal men...

Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the anatomy of anterolateral ligament (ALL), ALL injuries and relationship between other knee ligaments injuries, meniscal tears, bone by retrospectively scanning patients’ magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). 
 Material Methods: Our was designed as a retrospective, non-randomized, single-center clinical study. We included MR images 320 patients who applied o...

INTRODUCTION The proximity of the posterior horn of the lateral meniscus to the popliteal artery determines a risk of vascular injury in its suture. The aim of this study is to determine the location of the popliteal artery, and to establish the minimal distance from the posterior wall of the lateral meniscus to the artery, the common peroneal nerve (CPN), and its correlation to other variables...

BACKGROUND Lesions in the meniscus are risk factors for developing knee osteoarthritis (OA), not least because of the role of the meniscus in the pathological progression of OA. Delayed gadolinium enhanced MRI of cartilage (dGEMRIC) has extensively been used to identify pre-radiographic cartilage changes in OA. In contrast, its counterpart with regard to examination of the meniscus, gadolinium ...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the risk factor associated with total or subtotal meniscectomy for respective medial and lateral meniscus injury. METHODS The data of all the meniscus injured patients undergoing arthroscopy in our institute between January 15th, 2000 and December 31st, 2008 was collected and 6034 patients with 7241 injured menisci met the inclusion criteria. The mean patient age was 33...

BACKGROUND Most knee joint biomechanics studies have involved knees with an isolated anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. However, a large portion of patients with injured ACLs have accompanied meniscus tearing. In this study, the in vivo alteration of knee biomechanics after tearing the ACL with or without combined medial or lateral meniscus tear was investigated during stair-ascending act...

The meniscus, composed of fibrocartilage, is a very important part the human knee joint that behaves like buffer. Located in middle femoral condyles and tibial plateau, it necessary structure to maintain normal biomechanical properties knee. Whether walking or exercising, meniscus plays vital role protect articular surface both plateau by absorbing conveying shock from body weight. However, mod...

Abstract— Knee joint is very complex and delicate joint in human body structure. Due to weight load, stress, knees can be injured and damaged and Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the common diseases of knee injury. It is a degenerative joint disease in which cartilage slowly degrades. Another problem of knee is meniscus tear. Meniscus act as a weight distributer on joint surfaces and gives stabili...

Experimental work in animals (Walmsley and Bruce 1938) has shown that the menisci of the knee joint can regenerate after surgical removal. There have been several reports of regenerated cartilages in the human knee joint (Mandl 1929, M#{246}ller 1930, Fisher 1936, Bruce and Walmsley 1937). Smillie (1944) described the characteristics of the regenerated meniscus. It is in general appearance simi...