Affiliation:
1. Division of Surgery, Letterman Army Institute of Research, Presidio of San Francisco, California
Abstract
In an effort to determine the healing potential of medial meniscus tears, 20 canine and 12 rhesus knee joints were subjected to transverse medial meniscus lacer ation and repair with a single Dexon suture (Davis & Geck, Pearl River, NY). At four months, 12 out of 32 (38%) had healed completely with restoration of the inner meniscal rim and 18 (56%) showed partial heal ing sufficient to protect the underlying articular carti lage. Only 2 (6%) of the menisci failed to heal. Histo logic evaluation showed that the scar tissue present in the menisci was composed of unorganized collagen without common ground substance components. As a result of these studies, we believe that certain men iscal tears, particularly those involving the vascular periphery, can heal and may be repaired rather than treated by meniscectomy.
Subject
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Reference44 articles.
1. Late Results after Meniscectomy in the Knee Joint: A Clinical and Roentgenologic Follow-Up Investigation
2. The Degenerative Effects of Partial and Total Resection of the Medial Meniscus in Dogs?? Knees
3. Czipott Z. Untersuchungen uber die pathogenese der arthrosen im anschluss au meniskusoperationen Z Orthop 109 82-94, 1971
4. KNEE JOINT CHANGES AFTER MENISCECTOMY
5. Fisher V., Matzen K., Bruns H. Arthroseauslosende faktoren der meniskektomie Z Orthop 114 735-737, 1976
Cited by
138 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献