Why a Meniscectomy Fails

The clinical and roentgenological data on 30 patients with unsatisfactory recovery or recurrent symptoms after meniscectomy were analyzed. The meniscectomy was regarded as having been the wrong choice of therapy in four patients and as ineffective therapy in 11. in 10 patients other knee lesions dom...

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Published inActa orthopaedica Vol. 47; no. 6; pp. 672 - 675
Main Authors Laasonen, Erkki M., Wilppula, Eero
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Informa UK Ltd 01.01.1976
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Adolescent
Adult
Female
Humans
Joint Diseases - surgery
Knee Injuries - diagnostic imaging
Knee Injuries - surgery
Knee Joint - diagnostic imaging
Knee Joint - surgery
Male
Menisci, Tibial - surgery
Middle Aged
Osteoarthritis - complications
Osteochondritis - complications
Postoperative Complications - etiology
Postoperative Complications - surgery
Radiography
Rupture - surgery
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Summary:The clinical and roentgenological data on 30 patients with unsatisfactory recovery or recurrent symptoms after meniscectomy were analyzed. The meniscectomy was regarded as having been the wrong choice of therapy in four patients and as ineffective therapy in 11. in 10 patients other knee lesions dominated postoperatively, in three the recovery was delayed for no obvious reason but the symptoms slowly disappeared, and in the remaining two patients a degenerative osteoarthritis developing some time after the meniscectomy was regarded as the cause of the recurring symptoms. We conclude that with an optimal clinical and arthrographic analysis and with careful operative technique as many as 17 arthrotomies (out of 30 primary and 13 re-operations) in the material presented could have been avoided.
ISSN:1745-3674
0001-6470
1745-3682
DOI:10.3109/17453677608988758