Meniscal Tears
Reporting knee meniscal tears: technical aspects, typical pitfalls and how to avoid them
... Meniscal tears are a common pathology and diagnosis relies on a detailed clinical history and clinical examination, mag- netic resonance imaging (MRI), and ...of meniscal tears (e.g. ...
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Association between meniscal tears and the peak external knee adduction moment and foot rotation during level walking in postmenopausal women without knee osteoarthritis: a cross sectional study
... pixels). Meniscal tears were assessed in the sagittal view and con- firmed in coronal and axial views by experienced radiologists (André Pelletier and Josée Thériault) as previously described ...of ...
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Natural History of Symptomatic Meniscal Tears: Arthroscopic Evaluation of Chondral Damage at 4 Year Minimum
... acute tears of liga- ments/meniscus or injuries at articular surfaces develop OA of the knee ...of meniscal integrity in the normal function of the knee ...[13]. Meniscal tears are associated ...
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Association between meniscal tears and the peak external knee adduction moment and foot rotation during level walking in postmenopausal women without knee osteoarthritis: a cross sectional study
... between meniscal tear presence (yes/no) and severity (grade) (independent var- iables) and peak external knee adduction moments and foot rotation during early and late stance (outcome ...with meniscal ...
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A study to evaluate the accuracy of MRI in comparison to knee arthroscopy in diagnosing cruciate ligament tear and meniscal tears in organized sports and physical exercise related knee injuries in armed forces personnel
... peripheral meniscal tears, tears involving the inferior surface of meniscus and osteochondritis dessicans not associated with articular cartilage ...
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The Efficacy of Diffusion Weighted Imaging and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Mapping for Meniscal Tears in the Knee
... multiple tears of more than one configuration and one cleavage orientation lacking continuity; root, defined as a tear in the posterior or anterior meniscal attachments ...for meniscal tears ...
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Meniscal tears: comparison of the conventional spin-echo and fast spin-echo techniques through image processing
... procedures that were historically used as the gold standard. Arthroscopic surgery is inherently difficult because it depends on much practice due to the narrow knee joint spaces and the complex anatomic structures [1]. ...
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High resolution 3d magnetic resonance imaging (mri) versus standard 2d mri at 1 5t in detection of meniscal tears in knee with arthroscopic correlation
... TSE (Turbo spin echo), also known as FSE (Fast spin echo) imaging are commercial implementations of the RARE (Rapid Acquisition With Refocused Echoes) technique originally described by Henning et al in 1986. Since that ...
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Natural history and clinical significance of meniscal tears over 8 years in a midlife cohort
... in meniscal tear ...prevalent meniscal tears ...not tears. A recent meta-analysis examining risk factors for meniscal tears concluded that a high BMI is a moderate risk factor ...
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Knee complaints and prognosis of osteoarthritis at 10 years : impact of ACL ruptures, meniscal tears, genetic predisposition and surgery
... The clinical effect of meniscectomy in 118 knee patients with traumatic meniscal tears 10 years after knee complaints was determined. All 118 patients were part of a prospective cohort of 855 patients with ...
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The TeMPO trial (treatment of meniscal tears in osteoarthritis): rationale and design features for a four arm randomized controlled clinical trial
... Several placebo-controlled trials have been carried out in subjects with knee OA, a population with aver- age pain levels similar to persons with symptomatic meniscal tear and knee OA [18–25]. In most of these ...
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Repair of isolated horizontal meniscal tears with all-inside suture materials using the overlock method: outcome study with a minimum 2-year follow-up
... have tears in the zones 3 and 4 posterior of the meniscus, were determined with a hori- zontal meniscus tear on MRI and during arthroscopic surgery, which was able to be repaired, and had a follow-up period of at ...
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Meniscal tears
... all-inside meniscal repair techniques recently have become popular because they seem to avoid many of the potential compli- cations of other meniscal repair techniques and decrease operative ...facilitate ...
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Accuracy of SPECT bone scintigraphy in diagnosis of meniscal tears
... However SPECT has clear advantages when more possible accuracy is desired such as when MRI results are either inconclusive or contradict with other clinical data (i.e. SPECT should b[r] ...
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Detection of early cartilage deterioration associated with meniscal tear using T1ρ mapping magnetic resonance imaging
... of meniscal degeneration/tear ...the meniscal tear group had significantly greater T1ρ values at the distal area, both superficially (−30°–0°, 0°–30° and 30°–60° areas) and in the deep regions (−30°–0° and ...
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The biomechanical changes of load distribution with longitudinal tears of meniscal horns on knee joint: a finite element analysis
... of meniscal damage on the biomechanical changes of the load redistribution in the knee joint [9, ...that meniscal tears have a positive im- pact for the maintenance of high levels of contact ...
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Differences in levels of inflammatory mediators in meniscal and synovial tissue of patients with meniscal lesions
... with meniscal injuries under the age of 40 years (Brophy et ...to meniscal tears, with elevated expression of arthritis-related markers, indi- cative of an increased catabolic response, in patients ...
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Change in knee structure and change in tibiofemoral joint space width: a five year longitudinal population–based study
... Change in cartilage volume over 2.4 years only weakly predicted change in JSW over 5 years in participants from a community cohort. ME contributed similarly to cartilage volume change to change in JSW in the medial ...
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Large regional differences in incidence of arthroscopic meniscal procedures in the public and private sector in Denmark
... The reason for the large increase in arthroscopic surgery for meniscal tears in Denmark is unclear. Danish media have reported an increase in the number and availability of hospitals and clinics in the ...
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Clinical evaluation of MRI findings in chronic painful knee joint
... meniscal tears and 2(66.66%) had PCL tears. According to Stoller DW et al; [2] injury or disruption of the LCL is significantly less common than the injury to the MCL. Also, he stated that LCL ...
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