ReviewJournal of anatomy1998
The menisci of the knee joint. Anatomical and functional characteristics, and a rationale for clinical treatment.
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- Histological scoring systems for tissue-engineered, ex vivo and degenerative meniscus.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2013Pooled it
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- Bioprinting of Microtissues Within Mechanically Tunable Support Baths to Engineer Anisotropic Musculoskeletal Tissues.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Biologic Augmentation for Meniscus Repair: A Narrative Review.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Computational Dynamic Analysis of Medial Meniscus with Redial Tear, Repair, and Meniscectomy.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2025Article
- Arthroscopic Centralization of Meniscal Allograft Transplantation by Pullout Repair.Arthroscopy techniques · 2025Article
- McMurray's test is influenced by perimeniscal synovitis in degenerative meniscus tears.Knee surgery & related research · 2025Article
- Differences in the Association Between Medial Meniscus Tears and Focal Cartilage Lesions According to Tear Configuration.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2025Article
- Lateral femoral condyle cartilage lesions in chronic posterior lateral meniscus root tears: A report of seven cases.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2025Article
- Spatial and temporal evaluation of iodine uptake and radiodensity in meniscus tissue using contrast-enhanced micro-CT.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Relationship Between the Sagittal and Coronary Alignment of the Tibiofemoral Joint and the Medial Meniscus Extrusion in Knee Osteoarthritis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Injectable decellularized Wharton's jelly hydrogel containing CD56Materials today. Bio · 2024Article
- Evaluation of Meniscal Load and Load Distribution in the Sound Canine Stifle at Different Angles of Flexion.Veterinary and comparative orthopaedics and traumatology : V.C.O.T · 2024Article
- Biomechanical impact of meniscal ramp lesions on knee joint contact characteristics in ACL deficient knees: a cadaveric analysis.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2024Article
- Revealing the complexity of meniscus microvasculature through 3D visualization and analysis.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- [Meniscus update].Radiologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Review
- Could a three-dimensional contralateral meniscus segmentation for allograft or scaffold sizing be possible? A prospective study.International orthopaedics · 2023Article
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Abstract
The menisci and their insertions into bone (entheses) represent a functional unit. Thanks to their firm entheses, the menisci are able to distribute loads and therefore reduce the stresses on the tibia, a function which is regarded essential for cartilage protection and prevention of osteoarthrosis. The tissue of the hypocellular meniscal body consists mainly of water and a dense elaborate type I collagen network with a predominantly circumferential alignment. The content of different collagens, proteoglycans and nonproteoglycan proteins shows significant regional variations probably reflecting functional adaptation. The meniscal horns are attached via meniscal insertional ligaments mainly to tibial bone. At the enthesis, the fibres of the insertional ligaments attach to bone via uncalcified and calcified fibrocartilages. This anatomical configuration of gradual transition from soft to hard tissue, which is identical to other ligament entheses, is certainly essential for normal mechanical function and probably protects this vulnerable transition between 2 biomechanically different tissues from failure. Clinical treatment of meniscal tears needs to be based on these special anatomical and functional characteristics. Partial meniscectomy will preserve some of the load distribution function of the meniscus only when the meniscal body enthesis entity is preserved. Repair of peripheral longitudinal tears will heal and probably preserve the load distribution function of the meniscus, whereas radial tears through the whole meniscal periphery or more central and complex tears may be induced to heal, but probably do not preserve the load distribution function. There is no proof that replacement of the meniscus with an allograft can reestablish some of the important meniscal functions, and thereby prevent or reduce the development of osteoarthrosis which is common after meniscectomy. After implantation, major problems are the remodelling of the graft to inferior structural, biochemical and mechanical properties and its insufficient fixation to bone which fails to duplicate a normal anatomical configuration and therefore a functional meniscal enthesis.
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