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KMID : 0359619960080020222
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Journal of Korean Knee Society
1996 Volume.8 No. 2 p.222 ~ p.226
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Clinical Results of Arthroscopic Surgery of Discoid Meniscus
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Schech, Joseph M.
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Abstract
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Thirty-one patients who had symptomatic discoid lateral meniscus were operated on between january 1991 and april 1995 and twenty three patients under went follow up evaluation for more than twelve months. The patients were categorized according
to Watanabe´s classificatio, complete (20 cases0, incomplete (6 cases), and Wrisberg type (0 cases). The treatment for the symptomatic lateral discoid meniscus was based on the subtotal meniscectomy and the partial meniscectomy with or without suture of
the peripheral tear achieved by total arthroscopic technique under local anesthesia except 3 cases. The eighteen cases had reeived arthroscopic partial meniscetomy and the eight cases had received arthroscopic subtotal meniscectomy, among them
there were two cases of meniscal repair by arthroscopic technique. Using Ikeuchi´s knee scale, seventeen cases (95%) had either excellent or good ratings in partial meniscectomy group and eight cases (100%) in subtotal meniscetctomy group. there was no poor outcome. The preferable result in the knee treated by partial or subtotal meniscectomy enable to try to preserve meniscus as much as much as possible instead of total meniscectomy.
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