title: [Saving the meniscus].
abstract: Meniscal tears are described in a great variety of knee accidents. According to the affected region, the healing prognosis will be different: a tear in the peripheral vascularized red zone has an important healing capacity and must be repaired as far as possible. In the intermediate zone, a suture may still heal when inner tears, in the white zone, must be resected. After 65 years of age, 2/3 of knees demonstrate meniscal lesions. Surgical indications must be careful discussed in these non-traumatic lesions. Enthusiastic surgery, guided by imaging, is often deleterious.
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie orthopédique ambulatoire, Département de chirurgie, HUG, 1211 Genève 14. daniel.fritschy@hcuge.ch
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authors.lastname: Fritschy
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007718:Knee Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008592:Menisci, Tibial / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D000070600:Tibial Meniscus Injuries