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Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

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01-05-2016 | Editorial

Time for a paradigm change in meniscal repair: save the meniscus!

Authors: Romain Seil, Roland Becker

Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy | Issue 5/2016

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One of the most important clinical achievements highlighted at the third international meeting “The Meniscus: Preserve the future”, held in Porto in early February this year [9], was the improvement made in the field of meniscal repair. The loss of the meniscus can be regarded as a pre-arthritic condition for the knee due to the loss of protective function [2, 3]. However, the tear pattern has a crucial impact on that risk, and it became obvious that the differentiation of tear types and repair techniques has resulted in significant progress over the last few years. …

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Title: Time for a paradigm change in meniscal repair: save the meniscus!
Authors: Romain Seil
Roland Becker
Publication date: 01-05-2016
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy / Issue 5/2016
Print ISSN: 0942-2056
Electronic ISSN: 1433-7347
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-016-4127-9

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