Knee Arthroscopy Cohort Southern Denmark (KACS): protocol for a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Meniscus surgery is a high-volume surgery carried out on 1 million patients annually in the USA. The procedure is conducted on an outpatient basis and the patients leave the hospital a few hours after surgery. A critical oversight of previous studies is their failure to account for the type of meniscal tears. Meniscus tears can be categorised as traumatic or non-traumatic. Traumatic tears (TT) are usually observed in younger, more active individuals in an otherwise 'healthy' meniscus and joint. Non-traumatic tears (NTT) (ie, degenerative tears) are typically observed in the middle-aged (35-55 years) and older population but the aetiology is largely unclear. Knowledge about the potential difference of the effect of arthroscopic meniscus surgery on patient symptoms between

SUBMITTER: Thorlund JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3808767 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature