Meniscus posterior horn root tears with associated extrusion have generated considerable interest since their initial description by Pagnani and colleagues. In 2008, Allaire and colleagues ...

Posterior horn medial meniscus tear. This is a tear at the spot where the meniscus and bone meet. It most often happens when lifting a heavy object improperly or playing a sport with a twisting ...

Keith D. Nord Meniscal repair indications have not really changed in recent years. Typically younger, more active patients with concomitant ACL reconstruction and peripheral-third vertical tears ...

Symptoms of this kind of tear are pain, swelling at the back of the knee and locking. Only 10% of posterior horn meniscal tears are treatable.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated an acute tear of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) (Figure 1) with possible meniscocapsular separation of the medial meniscus (Figures 2,3).

Meniscal tears can cause pain, swelling, clicking, catching, giving way or locking in a knee. The investigation of choice is MRI. However, MRI scans are only 70–80% accurate (sensitive and specific) ...

New Orleans Hornets All-Star point guard Chris Paul will undergo arthroscopic left knee surgery for a meniscal tear. The plan for the rest of Paul’s season will depend on the severity of the … ...

Medial meniscus tears are more common. Less than 20 percent of meniscus tears occur without ligament damage. Sounds like Mark Ingram is one of the lucky 20 percent.

The prevalence of a meniscal tear or of meniscal destruction in the right knee as detected on MRI ranged from 19% (95% confidence interval [CI], 15 to 24) among women 50 to 59 years of age to 56% ...