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Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy
Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy 2/2019

01-02-2019 | Editorial

Save the meniscus again!

Authors: Nicolas Pujol, Philippe Beaufils

Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy | Issue 2/2019

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Meniscectomy is still one of the most popular and frequent orthopaedic procedures in the world. However, the long-term results, even following arthroscopic “so-called partial” meniscectomy, are not so good [10] and the concept of meniscal preservation has, therefore, progressed over the years [13]. However, the meniscectomy rate remains too high, even though robust scientific publications indicate the advantages of meniscal repair or non-removal procedures in traumatic tears [4, 12]. It is worrying to note the considerable gap between these publications and daily practice. Moreover, the increase in meniscus repairs among meniscectomies is slow all over the world [3, 5]. …
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Metadata
Title
Save the meniscus again!
Authors
Nicolas Pujol
Philippe Beaufils
Publication date
01-02-2019
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy / Issue 2/2019
Print ISSN: 0942-2056
Electronic ISSN: 1433-7347
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-018-5325-4

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