Arthroscopic partial meniscectoy( Short term clinical result)

Abstract

A Prospective clinical study , done in the orthopedic department of Aldiwanyia teaching hospital in the last year after introduction of arthroscopy in our hospital, including 30 patients with isolated traumatic meniscus injury , all of them are male, mean age was (27.5)year. All patients were under clinical assessment and MRI examination prior to the surgery to exclude other intra-articular lesion (cruciate ligaments injury or cartilage damage). Surgery done for them, which including diagnostic arthroscopy to confirm the diagnosis and then, partial arthroscopic meniscectomy done( 19 patients, medial partial meniscectomy. 11 patients, lateral partial meniscectomy). Each knee was classified 3 months after surgery as excellent, good, fair and poor result using criteria based on Hoover classification. There were 16 patients with excellent result (53.3%), 8 patients with good result(26.6%), 3 patients with fair result (10%),and 3 patients with poor result(1o%). From overall results, we conclude that, that, our arthroscopic partial meniscectomy gives comparable results with the same surgery done outside our country, on short term follow up.