Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8608573 | Sports Orthopaedics and Traumatology | 2017 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Non-traumatic meniscus lesions occur mainly in middle- and higher-aged patients. Nevertheless, they can also occur in young sportsmen. In general, it can be clearly diagnosed using patients' history, clinical examination and MRI. Regarding treatment, randomized clinical trials showed a partial superiority of arthroscopic partial meniscectomy compared to conservative treatment in general population. Additionally, failure rate was up to 35Â % of conservative treatment. Thus far for athletes, high-quality clinical trials comparing surgical with conservative treatment are missing; therefore, treatment recommendations based on level I studies are not possible for athletes. However, based on the high success rate, very low complication rate and very short postoperative break arthroscopic partial meniscectomy in case of a non-traumatic meniscus lesion is justifiable.
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Authors
Sebastian Kopf, Ralf Müller-Rath, Wolf Petersen, Roland Becker,