Acta Chir Orthop Traumatol Cech. 1989; 56(1):4-13
[Our 2-year experience with diagnostic arthroscopy of the knee joint].
The authors performed 200 arthroscopic examinations of the knee joint from April 1986 through March 1988. A suspected lesion of medial meniscus (in 52.5%) was the most frequent indication for the examination. Chondromalatia of patella was the most frequent arthroscopic finding (in 50.5% of examinations), two thirds of these findings were clinically inapparent. The ratio of arthroscopic findings of damage on the medial and lateral meniscus was 1.5:1. The lesions of medial meniscus were more frequently erroneously diagnosed clinically (32.4%), than the lateral meniscus lesions (25%), whereas the rupture of lateral meniscus was a more frequent accidental finding (19%) as compared with medial meniscus (11%). In 35% of cases the diagnostic arthroscopy saved the patient a useless revision of the joint. Reliability of the arthroscopic findings evaluated according to subsequent revisions proved to be 90.7%.
Published: February 1, 1989 Show citation