Isolated peripheral longitudinal tears in the anterior-middle segment of medial meniscus among young soccer players: A case series.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There was little information about the isolated medial meniscal tears in the anterior-middle segment. This study aimed to report the infrequent cases of the isolated medial meniscal tears in the anterior-middle segment related to kicking motion among young soccer players with a short-term postoperative outcome.

Presentation of case

In the retrospective review of the surgical records from 2000 to 2018, there were 15 cases with the corresponding tear. They were all young male soccer players with a mean age of 16.7 years (range: 10-23 years). The cause of injury was kicking motion during playing soccer in all the patients. The most frequent symptom was locking in 80% of the cases. In the arthroscopic evaluation, all the cases presented with a longitudinal (bucket-h

SUBMITTER: Tachibana Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8636816 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature