A meniscectomy is a type of surgery that’s used to treat a damaged meniscus. A meniscus is a structure made of cartilage that helps your knee work properly. You have two of them in each knee: lateral ...

1. Which doctor should I see for meniscectomy? An orthopedic surgeon should be consulted for meniscectomy. 2. What are the conditions whose symptoms are confused for those of torn menisci? The ...

We conducted a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled trial in 146 patients 35 to 65 years of age who had knee symptoms consistent with a degenerative medial meniscus tear and no knee ...

Partial meniscectomy does not improve patient symptoms or function, reveals a 10-year follow-up of the FIDELITY, a placebo-surgery controlled trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Meniscectomy within 1 year prior to knee arthroplasty may be a risk factor for poor functional outcomes.

About 700,000 people may be getting a knee surgery each year that doesn’t work as well as they had hoped, new research suggests. In fact, it may be no better than a "sham" procedure. The surgery is an ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Bone marrow aspirate concentrate injections may not provide benefit as an adjuvant for arthroscopic partial ...

Whether arthroscopic partial meniscectomy for symptomatic patients with a meniscal tear and knee osteoarthritis results in better functional outcomes than nonoperative therapy is uncertain. We ...

2 Finnish Centre for Evidence-Based Orthopedics (FICEBO), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Objectives To assess the long-term effects of arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM) on the ...

Correspondence to Sahil Dadoo, UPMC Freddie Fu Sports Medicine Center, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; sahildadoo{at}gmail.com ...