Although many of these patients end up with a diagnosis of a degenerative meniscal lesion, meniscal lesions are equally prevalent in patients with or without knee pain1 and therefore offer a poor ...

The Finnish Degenerative Meniscal Lesion Study (FIDELITY) compared surgical treatment of degenerative meniscal tears to placebo surgery. A year after the procedure the study participants ...

The menisci of the knee joint are fibrocartilaginous C-shaped disks that occupy the joint space between the femur and the tibia. Embryologically, the menisci form from mesenchymal tissue and ...

We have been criticised for recruiting patients with symptoms not attributable to a meniscal tear.46 In patients with a degenerative ... A complete list of the FIDELITY (Finnish Degenerative Meniscus ...

Evidence suggests that cell accumulation at the meniscal lesion is important for repair of the damaged tissue and restoration of joint function. Now, data from Farshid Guilak and colleagues at ...

The primary outcomes were changes in the Lysholm and Western Ontario Meniscal Evaluation Tool (WOMET) scores (each ranging from 0 to 100, with lower scores indicating more severe symptoms ...

The investigators matched patients according to their age, gender associated ACL repair, time from injury to surgery, and zone of the meniscal lesion. In all, 48 patients who had an all-inside ...

When meniscal tears are found, it is commonly assumed that the symptoms are attributable to them. However, there is a paucity of data regarding the prevalence of meniscal damage in the general ...