Methods: Eight patients with trapped medial meniscus tears were identified from a single surgeon’s academic orthopaedic sports medicine practice between January 2009 and January 2012. Each patient underwent clinical evaluation, MRI, and arthroscopic treatment for meniscus injury. Clinical notes, MRI images, radiology reports, and operative findings were reviewed and compared in a descriptive fa...

The goal of this study is to quantify changes in knee joint contact behavior following varying degrees of the medial partial meniscectomy. A previously validated 3D finite element model was used to simulate 11 different meniscectomies. The accompanying changes in the contact pressure on the superior surface of the menisci and tibial plateau were quantified as was the axial strain in the menisci...

In this paper, the numerical study focuses on stress field of knee meniscus in two gaits jumping motion, and injury its protection effect are studied based distribution characteristics meniscus. The gait simulation was carried out by using a more detailed healthy model including bone, articular cartilage, meniscus, ligaments peripheral soft tissues constructed combining CT MRI tomography, peak ...

We describe a prospective survival analysis of 63 consecutive meniscal allografts transplanted into 57 patients. The lateral meniscus was transplanted in 34, the medial meniscus in 17, and both menisci (combined) in the same knee in six. For survival analysis we used persistent pain or mechanical damage as clinical criteria of failure. A total of 13 allografts failed (5 lateral, 7 medial, 1 med...

Introduction Occasional difficulty is experienced in mobilizing the posterior horn of the medial meniscus, in spite of the use of the special cartilage knives and snares that have been designed to overcome this. The purpose of this paper is to describe a modification of the standard meniscectomy procedure and thereby simplify it. The modification consists of the section of the posterior attachm...