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KMID : 0361619710060040313
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Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
1971 Volume.6 No. 4 p.313 ~ p.316
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Clinical Analysis of Meniscus Injuries in Korean Soldiers
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Abstract
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Clinical analysis is done on 108 meniscus injuries operated on at Kwangju Armed Forces General Hospital from 1961 to 1971, with the following results.
1. All cases included in this report were military personnels aged from 19 to 35 years old.
2. The lateral meniscus was more frequently injured than the medial with a ratio of 79 to 29 (8:3)
and the right side knee than the left with a ratio of 60 to 48(6:5).
3. The posterior horn tears were the most common type of injuries involved in 40 cases (41%). 4. There could be found no history of definitive trauma in 17 cases.
5. It seems that the habit of exaggerated flexion of the knee in Koreans is an important factor
attributable to the higher incidence of the injury to the lateral meniscus.
6. The complete healing after total meniscectomy ranged from 20 days to about 2 months.
7. The duration of symptoms seems to have no bearing on the long-term effects of meniscectomy,
in other words, delay of operation after injury did not affect the ultimate result.
8. There was no difference in results that could be related to the length of follow-up study.
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