ArticleBMC musculoskeletal disorders2021
The influence of the steep medial posterior tibial slope on medial meniscus tears in adolescent patients: a retrospective case-control study.
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- Association Between Increased Posterior Tibial Slope and Isolated Meniscal Tears in Patients Aged 18-30 Years.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- The 'over-the-top' technique allows for accurate and reproducible restoration of the native tibial slope in kinematically aligned total knee arthroplasty: A retrospective comparative analysis from the FP-UCBM Knee Study Group.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2025Article
- Increased posterior tibial slope in patients with anterior cruciate ligament-deficient knees compared to knees with an intact anterior cruciate ligament and a degenerative medial meniscus tear: A radiographic comparative study.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2025Article
- An analysis of radiologic and anatomical parameters associated with traumatic isolated medial meniscus tear patterns in Ligament-Intact knees.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Article
- Increased Posterior Tibial Slope Is Associated with Isolated Meniscal Injuries: A Case-Control Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
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- Posterior Tibial Slope Is Not Correlated With Meniscal Tears in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.Arthroscopy, sports medicine, and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Association between anatomical risk factors and medial meniscus posterior root tears: a retrospective study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Article
- Increased lateral femoral condyle ratio measured by MRI is associated with higher risk of solitary meniscus injury.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024Article
- 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
- Decreased medial posterior tibial slope is associated with an increased risk of posterior cruciate ligament rupture.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundSeveral studies have demonstrated a relationship between the posterior tibial slope (PTS) and meniscal tears in adults. However, little is known about the association between the PTS of the adolescents and medial meniscal tears (MMT). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between the PTS and MMT in adolescents, and to determine the optimal cut-off values of PTS for discriminating between the MMT and the control groups.
methodsBetween January 2018 and January 2020, a retrospective case-control study was performed. In this study, isolated MMT adolescent patients with no ligamentous injuries were matched by age and sex to a control group of radiologically normal images. The PTS was defined as the angle between the perpendicular line to proximal tibial cortex (PTC) and the tangent line along the tibial plateau. Then, both the medial posterior tibial slope (MPTS) and lateral posterior tibial slope (LPTS) were measured by plain radiographs on the lateral views. In addition, the optimal cut-off values of PTS were determined by the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis.
resultsA total of seventy-two patients who met the inclusion criteria were enrolled in the final analysis (36 patients with isolated MMT, 36 controls). The MPTS was greater in the knees with isolated MMT (10.7° ± 2.1°) than that of the control group (8.8° ± 1.7°), showing significant difference (P<0.001). However, there was no significant difference regarding the LPTS between the isolated MMT and controls (11.5 ± 3.4 vs 10.9 ± 2.6, p>0.05). In the ROC curve analysis, the calculated cutoff value of the MPTS discriminating between the groups was 10.3°, with a sensitivity of 73.3% and specificity of 78.9%.
conclusionsThis study demonstrated that steep MPTS is associated with MMT, and MPTS≥10.3° was identified to be a risk factor for MMT in adolescents.
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