ArticleArthroscopy, sports medicine, and rehabilitation2021
In-Office Needle Arthroscopy Can Evaluate Meniscus Tear Repair Healing as an Alternative to Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
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- In-Office Needle Arthroscopy: Indications, Surgical Techniques, Tips, and Tricks.Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Global research & reviews · 2024Article
- Needle Arthroscopy as a Promising Alternative to MRI for the Diagnosis of Meniscus Injury.Cureus · 2023Article
- In-Office Needle Arthroscopy with Meniscal Repair for Meniscal Lesions of the Knee.Arthroscopy techniques · 2023Article
- Comparison of Visibility and Risk of Neurovascular Tissue Injury Between Portals in Needle Arthroscopy of the Anterior Ankle Joint: A Cadaveric Study.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2023Article
- Arthroscopic repair of degenerative medial meniscus tears in patients aged over 45 years resulted in favorable clinical outcomes and low clinical failure rates at a minimum 2-year follow-up.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Article
- In-Office Diagnostic Needle Arthroscopy Using the NanoScope™ Arthroscopy System.Arthroscopy techniques · 2022Article
- In-office needle arthroscopic assessment after primary ACL repair: short-term results in 15 patients.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeTo assess the healing of horizontal cleavage tears of the meniscus 1 year after surgical repair and to determine what modality is best to determine healing.
methodsPatients were prospectively followed for 12 months after surgical meniscus repair using a circumferential compression stitch. Inclusion criteria were preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) evidence of horizontal cleavage tear, age between 18 and 50 years, and no concomitant anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Patients were excluded if they were >50 years old, had a meniscus tear pattern other than horizontal cleavage tear, and underwent concomitant ligament reconstruction. MRIs were performed 1-year postoperatively for evaluation of repair healing. Preoperative and postoperative MRIs of tears were evaluated blindly by a musculoskeletal radiologist. In-office needle arthroscopy was performed at 6 months post-operatively.
resultsEight patients were included and had surgery between March 2016 and November 2017. There were 4 medial and 4 lateral meniscus tears. No patients had recurrence of preoperative symptoms or evidence of retear. Six repairs evaluated by in-office needle (at 5.9 months postsurgery) arthroscopy demonstrated complete healing. Seven of the 8 patients had grade III changes on preoperative MRI, and 1 patient had grade IIc changes. On postoperative MRI, 5 of 7 patients had grade III changes, 1 patient had IIc changes, and 1 had IIb changes. There was no significant difference in the proportion of patients with grade III changes preoperatively compared with postoperatively (
conclusionsHorizontal cleavage meniscal tears repaired with a circumferential compression stitch demonstrate healing on in-office needle arthroscopy 6 months after surgery. No evidence of incomplete or failed healing was found. MRI at 1 year after surgery demonstrated residual tear evidence for all patients. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: IV, therapeutic case series.
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