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KMID : 0359619960080020180
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Journal of Korean Knee Society
1996 Volume.8 No. 2 p.180 ~ p.183
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Retrieval of the Validity of O´Donoghue´s Unhappy Triad
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Abstract
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O´Donoghue in 1950 called attention to the ＂Unhappy Triad＂ which were 1) rupture of the MC; 2) damage to the medial jmeniscus and 3) rupture of the ACL and recommended early surgical treatment for better result.
Based on a recent report by some authors that questions the validity of the classic unhappy triad, we leviewed 80 of 80 patients with arthroscopically confirmed acut4 injuries of the ACL and MCL.
Poatines were subdivided into two groups for analysis based on the degree of the MCL injury at the time of presentation. 44 patients with grade 1_or 2+MCL injury (Group I).:36 patients with a grade 3+MCL injury (Group II).
FThe number of meniscal injury associated with ACL and MCL injury was 51 cases (63.8%).
There was no signiricant difference of meniscal injury between medial and lateral meniscus. The rupture of medial meniscus was more common in Group I(62.5%) than in Group II(26.3%), but the that of lateral meniscus was more common in Group
II(68.4%)
than in Group I(28.1%).
We concluded that the variable combination of injuries including lateral menisus rupture should be reminded in sports injury, even though the classic ＂Unhappy Trid＂ is a fixed clinical entity.
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