Arthroscopic Procedure for Chronic Isolated Bucket-Handle Meniscal Tears.

ABSTRACT: Arthroscopic treatment is the treatment of choice in bucket-handle meniscal tears (BHMTs). Following BHMT, however, surgery failure rates are approximately 20% in the literature. Achieving the healing of BHMT is difficult. This is worse in chronic situations because the torn meniscus is deformed, leading to nonanatomical reduction. Some authors have reported greater failure rates, especially in the early postoperative period. In isolated BHMTs, the failure rate is greater because of inadequate and incomplete repairs due to the tight medial compartment. Multiple techniques for possible reduction of failure rate have been described. We describe an arthroscopic technique for treating chronic isolated BHMT using the technique of subcutaneously releasing the posterior fibers of the medial colla

SUBMITTER: Abolaji Alabi I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7917027 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature