Results of meniscus repair over menisectomy in bucket handle tear of medial meniscus: Study of 30 cases

Abstract

Background and Aim: Meniscus plays an important role in the knee, and thus, is being an important research topic for years. There are three different methods available for the treatment of Bucket handle meniscal tears, which are meniscectomy, meniscal repair with or without the uses of augmentation technique and the meniscal reconstruction. The aim of the research paper is to compare the results of meniscus repair over meniscectomy in bucket handle tear of medial meniscus. Materials and methods: It was a retrospective review of the prospectively collected data between January 2015 and December 2016 on the patients having bucket handle tear of medial meniscus, undergoing the ACL reconstruction. For this study, 30 patients were selected on the basis of the exclusion and inclusion criteria, who were equally distributed in Group A (Meniscus repair) and Group B (Menisectomy). Results: In the present study it is found that the mean age of the patient was 25.38years, majority of the patients were male participants and sports injury is found to be the major reason for the meniscal tear. Further, there is no significant difference in the mean of tunnel diameter, Lachman test, overall grades and radiographic grades between Group A and Group B. Conclusion: The study concluded that the results of the tunnel widening were found to be higher when the patient is treated with meniscectomy, and the results of Lachman test shows that meniscal repair is effective. On comparing the after results of both the meniscal repair and meniscectomy with the help of applying the radiological analysing, it is being found that meniscal repair offers better outcomes as compared to the meniscectomy.