The aim of this study was to follow patients in whom preoperative MRI demonstrated grade-3 lesions in the medial meniscus but no visible tears at arthroscopic ACL reconstruction, and to ascertain whether these meniscal lesions would progress to definite tears after reconstruction. The Study population consisted of 19 patients with a mean age of 23.2 years. Intraoperative arthroscopy showed norm...

MR imaging provides information on soft tissue damage and has been accepted widely for the evaluation of internal knee derangements. Hence the purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of MRI in the early and precise diagnosis and to study the meniscal anatomy, normal variants, types and incidence of injuries in menisci by MRI. Out of 43 patients the males (84%) are commonly affected...

Menisci function to manage load transmission, provide secondary mechanical stability as well as nutrition, and lubricate the joint. Meniscus transplantation techniques continue to evolve and include: free soft tissue allograft implantation; separate anterior and posterior bone plugs; and bone bridges including key hole, trough, dovetail, and bridge-in-slot variations. The senior author's prefer...

Background: The goal was to determine the thickness and width of knee joint meniscus at their different regions. objective compare dimensions these regions over right- left-sided specimens. Methods: present study included 50 adult cadaveric joints, 100 menisci (50 medial lateral menisci) were studied. distributed into anterior, mid...

OBJECTIVE To validate an automatic scheme for the segmentation and quantitative analysis of the medial meniscus (MM) and lateral meniscus (LM) in magnetic resonance (MR) images of the knee. METHOD We analysed sagittal water-excited double-echo steady-state MR images of the knee from a subset of the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) cohort. The MM and LM were automatically segmented in the MR im...

Background Fractures of the tibial eminence, first described by Poncet in 1875, are bony avulsions of the ACL from its insertion on the intercondylar eminence of the tibia (Figure 1). Tibial eminence fractures are relatively rare with an incidence of approximately 3 per 100,000 per year, and account for 2 to 5% of knee injuries in the pediatric pediatric population. While most commonly seen in ...

The authors report the case of a 38-year-old male who presented to the accident and emergency department with a locked knee after falling from a height. The knee was locked at 35° of flexion without any signs of instability in clinical examination. The patient was operated within 6 h from injury. During arthroscopy bucket-handle tears of both medial and lateral menisci were found. The bucket-ha...

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...