ArticleBMC musculoskeletal disorders2016
Association of MRI findings and expert diagnosis of symptomatic meniscal tear among middle-aged and older adults with knee pain.
Article in BMC musculoskeletal disorders, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00597012 (Partial Meniscectomy Versus Nonoperative Management in Meniscal Tear With OA), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Partial Meniscectomy Versus Nonoperative Management in Meniscal Tear With OA: A Randomized Controlled Trial (MeTeOR)
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- Pooled it
- Treatment of post-meniscectomy knee symptoms with medial meniscus replacement results in greater pain reduction and functional improvement than non-surgical care.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2022Trial
- Age exerts differential effects on MRI misclassification for medial and lateral meniscal tears.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2026Article
- Potential sources of pain in symptomatic degenerative meniscal tear: A narrative review.Osteoarthritis and cartilage open · 2025Review
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundOur aim was to examine the association between an expert clinician's impression of symptomatic meniscal tears and subsequent MRI in the context of middle-aged and older adults with knee pain.
methodsPatients older than 45 were eligible for this IRB-approved substudy if they had knee pain, had not undergone MRI and saw one of two orthopaedic surgeons experienced in the diagnosis of meniscal tear. The surgeon rated their confidence that the patient's symptoms were due to meniscal tear. The patient subsequently had a 1.5 or 3.0 T MRI within 6 months. We examined the association between presence of meniscal tear on MRI and the surgeon's confidence that the knee pain was due to meniscal tear using a χ(2) test for trend.
resultsOf 84 eligible patients, 63% were female, with a mean age of 64 years and a mean BMI of 27. The surgeon was confident that symptoms emanated from a tear among 39%. The prevalence of meniscal tear on MRI overall was 74%. Among subjects whose surgeon indicated high confidence that symptoms were due to meniscal tear, the prevalence was 80% (95% CI 63-90%). Similarly, the prevalence was 87% (95% CI 62-96%) among those whose surgeon had medium confidence and 64% (95% CI 48-77%) among those whose surgeon had low confidence (p = 0.12).
conclusionMeniscal tears were frequently found on MRI even when an expert clinician was confident that a patient's knee symptoms were not due to a meniscal tear, indicating that providers should use MRI sparingly and cautiously to confirm or rule out the attribution of knee pain to meniscal tear.
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