Circumferential-Surrounding ("Sandwich") Meniscal Repair: A Salvage Technique to Save the Meniscus.

ABSTRACT: Meniscal injuries are extremely common in the general and athletic populations. The management strategy has switched from meniscectomy to meniscal-preserving techniques. It is nowadays extensively accepted that surgeons have to do their best to repair the meniscus and try to preserve as much tissue as possible. However, in many cases the tissue quality is poor and the tear pattern is complex. In such scenarios, meniscal repair has a lower success rate. In the present surgical technique, an arthroscopic all-inside circumferential-surrounding meniscal repair technique is presented. Any meniscal tissue or the meniscal rim is first debrided to a bleeding bed. Then, an all-inside device is used to create vertical sutures from capsule to capsule surrounding the entire meniscus (circumferential-s

SUBMITTER: Alentorn-Geli E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7587022 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature