Clinical and radiographic results after arthroscopic repair of lateral meniscus tear in lateral-depression tibial plateau fracture
Autor: | Sang Hak Lee, Kang Ii Kim, Seong Hwan Kim, Seung Hyuk Lee, Hyungon Gwak |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment Osteoarthritis Menisci Tibial 03 medical and health sciences Arthroscopy 0302 clinical medicine Fracture fixation medicine Tibial plateau fracture Internal fixation Humans Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Retrospective Studies Lateral meniscus 030222 orthopedics medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Depression 030229 sport sciences General Medicine medicine.disease Surgery Tibial Meniscus Injuries Tibial Fractures medicine.anatomical_structure Orthopedic surgery Tears business |
Zdroj: | Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery. 142(2) |
ISSN: | 1434-3916 |
Popis: | To evaluate the clinical and radiographic results of AR/IF and meniscus repair for treating lateral meniscus (LM) tears associated with lateral tibial plateau fractures and to identify the factors associated with LM tear. Forty-two patients with lateral plateau fractures (Schatzker types II and III) treated by AR/IF were included retrospectively. Radiographic evaluations using the Rasmussen system and computerized tomography (CT) were performed. Clinical evaluations were also conducted at final follow-up. Second-look arthroscopy was applied during metal removal. All fractures were healed after 46.3 months of follow-up. The mean Tegner activity level was not decreased significantly, going from 7.1 ± 2.1 pre-injury to 6.6 ± 2.3 at final follow-up (p = 0.301). However, the amount of depression noted on CT imaging was significantly decreased from 8.9 mm ± 4.4 to 1.2 mm ± 1.3 (p = 0.000). The mean Rasmussen radiologic score at final follow-up was 14.5 ± 5.3 points. Osteoarthritis was progressed in six patients (14.3%). Twenty-five patients had concomitant LM tear, with 18 cases treated by repair and the remaining ones treated by partial meniscectomy. Preoperative joint depression (> 11 mm) was significantly associated with the risk of LM tear (p = 0.024; odds ratio (OR): 9.0, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.018–79.545) and most of those lesions could be repaired (p = 0.001). Postoperatively, 16 repaired patients were evaluated by second-look arthroscopy; 15 had healed completely and one had healed partially. LM tears are frequently combined with lateral tibial plateau fracture, especially in correlation with more than 11 mm of joint depression, though most of those lesions can be repaired at the time of fracture fixation. AR/IF with arthroscopic meniscus repair could achieve good clinical and radiographic outcomes when treating Schatzker types II and III tibial plateau fractures. Level IV retrospective cohort study. |
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