ArticleKnee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA2021
Steep medial tibial slope and prolonged delay to surgery are associated with bilateral medial meniscus posterior root tear.
Article in Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- Differences Between Traumatic and Degenerative Medial Meniscus Posterior Root Tears: A Systematic Review.The American journal of sports medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Association Between Increased Posterior Tibial Slope and Isolated Meniscal Tears in Patients Aged 18-30 Years.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Association between discoid lateral meniscus and medial meniscus posterior root tear: A retrospective cohort study.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2026Article
- Identification and prediction of isolated lateral meniscal lesions in the Chinese population using MRI-based anatomical parameters.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Article
- Medial joint line obliquity and medial meniscus tear were associated with medial meniscal extrusion: A case-control study.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2025Article
- Combined Transtibial Medial Meniscus Posterior Root Pullout Repair and Medial Open Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy.Arthroscopy techniques · 2025Article
- Occupational motions such as kneeling and squatting are associated with the increased development of medial meniscus posterior root tears, regardless of the medial posterior tibial slope angle.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2025Article
- Biomechanical effects of LCWHTO vs. MOWHTO on medial meniscus posterior root repair: a finite element analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Medial Meniscal Posterior Root Tears Are Associated With Steeper Medial Posterior Tibial Slope and Varus Alignment.Arthroscopy, sports medicine, and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Posteromedial opening wedge high tibial osteotomy has favourable outcomes in simultaneous medial meniscus posterior root repair and varus medial knee osteoarthritis patients without concomitant root tear.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Article
- Biomechanical comparison of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene sutures of different thicknesses of the tensile strength for pullout repair of medial meniscal posterior root tear.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2024Article
- Article
- Greater medial proximal tibial slope is associated with bone marrow lesions in middle-aged women with early knee osteoarthritis.Journal of orthopaedics and traumatology : official journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology · 2023Article
- Plate Hooking Transtibial Medial Meniscus Posterior Root Pull-Out Repair with Medial Open-Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy for Knee Osteoarthritis with Medial Meniscus Posterior Root Tear.Arthroscopy techniques · 2023Article
- The clinical and radiographic outcomes of type 2 medial meniscus posterior root tears following transtibial pullout repair.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Article
- Internal tibial torsion is associated with medial meniscus posterior horn tears.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Article
- Simultaneous Correction of Varus Deformity and Posterior Tibial Slope by Modified Hybrid Closed-Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy.Arthroscopy techniques · 2022Article
- A posterior shiny-corner lesion of the tibia is observed in the early phase after medial meniscus posterior root tear.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2022Article
- Large flexion contracture angle predicts tight extension gap during navigational posterior stabilized-type total knee arthroplasty with the pre-cut technique: a retrospective study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2022Article
- [Posterior meniscus root tears].Der Orthopade · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeContralateral medial meniscus posterior root tear (MMPRT) can sometimes occur after primary surgeries for MMPRT and lead to unsatisfactory outcomes. The incidence rate and risk factors for contralateral MMPRT have not been well investigated, despite their clinical importance. Therefore, the incidence and predictors of bilateral MMPRT were aimed to be evaluated.
methodsFourteen patients with bilateral MMPRT (group B) and 169 patients with unilateral MMPRT (group U) were enrolled in this study. Sex, age, body mass index, time between injury and surgery, and medial tibial slope angle (MTSA) were compared between the groups. MTSA was measured using lateral radiographs.
resultsThe incidence rate of bilateral MMPRT was 6.2% among all patients with MMPRTs. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that a prolonged time between injury and surgery (odds ratio [OR], 1.0; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.00-1.01; P < 0.05) and steeper MTSA (OR, 1.85; 95% CI 1.21-2.64; P < 0.01) were significantly associated with the development of bilateral MMPRT. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed that MTSA > 10.0° was associated with bilateral MMPRT, with a sensitivity of 93% and specificity of 69%.
conclusionA longer time between injury and surgery and steeper MTSA were risk factors for the development of bilateral MMPRT. Surgeons need to pay close attention to the contralateral knee in addition to the primary injured knees when treating knees with steep MTSA. Besides, early meniscal repair of primary MMPRT would be important to prevent the events of contralateral MMPRT. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: III.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.