Midterm and Long-term Results After Arthroscopic Suture Repair of Isolated, Longitudinal, Vertical Meniscal Tears in Stable Knees

摘要: Background: The long-term outcome of meniscal suture repair has not been firmly established.Purpose: To compare the midterm and functional radiographic repairs with natural history uninjured knees each a cohort patients.Study Design: Cohort study; Level evidence, 3.Methods: Eighty-eight patients an isolated, longitudinal, vertical tear one menisci within stable knee were arthroscopically treated repair. No patient had previous surgery, no additional chondral lesion was present. opposite uninjured. Both examined clinically radiographically in retrospective follow-up 5 to 17 years (mean, 10 years) after repair.Results: Three postoperative complications 21 whose be removed because rerupture excluded from further evaluation for purposes this study. remaining 64 reach...