An Analysis of Symptomatic Meniscal Re-Tear Incidence in Two Age Populations: Differences in Older versus Younger Adults
| Autor: | Gene R. Barrett, Benjamin M. Albert, Marc R. Labbe, Lacy Malloch, Randa K. Elmallah, LaRita C Jones, William H. Replogle |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Databases Factual Arthritis Osteoarthritis 03 medical and health sciences Arthroscopy Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Recurrence Medicine Humans Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Young adult Meniscectomy Retrospective Studies 030222 orthopedics Joint compartment medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Incidence Age Factors Retrospective cohort study 030229 sport sciences Middle Aged Osteoarthritis Knee medicine.disease Surgery Tibial Meniscus Injuries Causality Orthopedic surgery Chronic Disease Female business |
| Zdroj: | The journal of knee surgery. 34(2) |
| ISSN: | 1938-2480 |
| Popis: | A symptomatic meniscal tear is one of the most common problems treated by an orthopaedic surgeon. Treatment ranges from observation to complete meniscectomy. Prior research has shown that contact stresses increase within the joint compartment after partial meniscectomy, thus leading to arthritis of the compartment. The purpose of the current study was to determine the incidence of meniscal re-tears in two populations of patients and identify potential factors predisposing to re-tear. A retrospective review of our relational database identified 1,930 arthroscopic partial meniscectomies from 1993 to 2003. Meniscectomies were divided into two groups, 430 patients |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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