Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Meniscectomy within 1 year prior to knee arthroplasty may be a risk factor for poor functional outcomes.

A meniscectomy is a type of surgery that’s used to treat a damaged meniscus. A meniscus is a structure made of cartilage that helps your knee work properly. You have two of them in each knee: lateral ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Partial meniscectomy with needle arthroscopy had lower opioid consumption vs. standard arthroscopy. Early pain ...

We conducted a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled trial in 146 patients 35 to 65 years of age who had knee symptoms consistent with a degenerative medial meniscus tear and no knee ...

1. Which doctor should I see for meniscectomy? An orthopedic surgeon should be consulted for meniscectomy. 2. What are the conditions whose symptoms are confused for those of torn menisci? The ...

MALMÖ, Sweden, Dec. 4 -- Several years after surgery to repair a non-traumatic meniscus tear, loss of muscle strength in the quadriceps left middle-aged patients with a painful, unstable knee ...

2 Finnish Centre for Evidence-Based Orthopedics (FICEBO), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Objectives To assess the long-term effects of arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM) on the ...

Correspondence to Sahil Dadoo, UPMC Freddie Fu Sports Medicine Center, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; sahildadoo{at}gmail.com ...