Meniscal injuries are a common cause of knee pain and often an indication for arthroscopy, the most orthopedic surgical procedure in United States. In-office needle arthroscopy (IONA) is described technique with ability to diagnose treat meniscal office. IONA allows diagnosis treatment at significantly deceased cost, both quicker patient recovery, improved satisfaction. The purpose this technic...

In the growing world of hip arthroscopy instructional texts, it can be challenging to find a consise but detailed sugical guide. The Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA) recently published an comprehensive surgical technique guide with internationally renown editors and contributors. The Hip: AANA Advanced Arthroscopic Surgical Techniques (SLACK Inc., Thorofare, NJ, USA, 2016) is one...

BACKGROUND Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) has an incidence of 1 case per 1000 inhabitants in the general population and it is very rare after arthroscopy of the shoulder. Therefore, the current guidelines do not advise the administration of DVT prophylaxis in shoulder arthroscopy procedures. CASES PRESENTATION We describe two cases of thrombosis of the arm after shoulder arthroscopy on a total of...

PURPOSE To compare magnetic resonance (MR) arthrography and arthroscopy as a means of assessing the severity of labral tear in anterior glenohumeral instability. METHODS 52 patients presenting with traumatic recurrent anterior shoulder instability were evaluated using MR arthrography; 30 shoulders with a labroligamentous lesion were treated with arthroscopic Bankart repair. Their MR arthrogra...

OBJECTIVE To assess the reproducibility of the Outerbridge and the French Society of Arthroscopy classifications between different observers, and to establish a comparison between them. METHOD Thirty videos on randomly selected knee arthroscopy procedures demonstrating chondral lesions were used. These were classified by six observers: two third-year orthopedics residents and four orthopedic ...

The purpose of this study is to report on the operative findings and the outcomes of revision hip arthroscopy. All hip arthroscopy cases are prospectively assessed with a modified Harris Hip Score (mHHS) preoperatively and postoperatively. This study consists of 190 consecutive hips (186 patients) who underwent revision arthroscopy with minimum 2-year follow-up. There were 69 males and 117 fema...

BACKGROUND The knee joint is the largest and the most complex joint of the human body. It is not covered by any thick muscular covering anteriorly. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to explore the diagnostic capabilities of clinical examination, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and arthroscopy in traumatic disorders of the knee joint, to seek correlation between clinical findings, MRI...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the cost-effectiveness of knee arthroscopy and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. METHODS Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data from a single-surgeon, institutional review board-approved outcomes registry included 2 cohorts: surgically treated knee arthroscopy and ACL reconstruction patients. Our outcome measure...

BACKGROUND Arthroscopy is widely used in various equine joints for diagnostic and surgical purposes. However, accuracy of defining the extent of cartilage lesions and reproducibility in grading of lesions are not optimal. Therefore, there is a need for new, more quantitative arthroscopic methods. Arthroscopic optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging is a promising tool introduced for quantita...

Three dimensional (3D) display of medical data sets is an increasingly useful tool. Viewing 3D reconstructions of objects from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computerized tomography (CT) data is more natural and intuitive than mentally reconstructing these objects from orthogonal slices of the data, especially with the increase in size of datasets due to improving scanner resolutions. Whe...