Knee Sports Injuries
A 24-year-old soccer player presents with a locked knee after a twisting injury during a game. MRI shows a bucket-handle tear of the medial meniscus with the displaced fragment flipped into the intercondylar notch. The tear extends from the posterior horn anteriorly and appears to be in the peripheral 3mm of the meniscus. The ACL is intact. The surgeon discusses the importance of meniscal preservation and the decision between repair and partial meniscectomy. Regarding meniscus tears and management principles:
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The meniscus transmits 70% of knee load and increases contact area by 50%; meniscectomy increases co...
Blood supply zones: RED-RED zone (outer 0-3mm from periphery) has excellent healing potential (80-90...
Meniscectomy is preferred over repair in all young patients; root tears have minimal biomechanical s...
MENISCAL ROOT TEARS disrupt the hoop stress mechanism and are functionally equivalent to total menis...
The MenTOR trial showed NO significant difference between arthroscopic partial meniscectomy and phys...
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