Operative arthroscopy.
With appropriate instrumentation it is now possible to follow a diagnostic arthroscopy with a definitive surgical procedure. Arthroscopic surgery has become an established technique in many centres of the world and in most instances, is done on an out-patient basis. Partial meniscectomy and other operative procedures involve either two or three portals of entry into the joint, with visual triangulation of instruments to the area of the pathology.
D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D001182:Arthroscopy; D006801:Humans; D007596:Joints / Q000601:surgery*; D008722:Methods; D013525:Surgical Instruments