title: Clinically oriented morphometric study of medial and lateral menisci of the knee joint in adult cadavers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective was to analyze the peripheral and inner border lengths of the medial and lateral menisci and the distance between anterior and posterior horns.
  
  
  METHODS
  The menisci from 23 adult knee joints (46 menisci) of the formalin fixed cadaver lower limbs were used. The peripheral and inner borer lengths of the menisci were measured with a non elastic cotton thread and the distance between the horns were measured with the vernier caliper of 0.02 mm accuracy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean peripheral lengths of the medial and lateral menisci were 99.06 +/- 11.21 and 90.25 +/- 9.36 mm respectively. The inner border lengths for the same were determined as 55.44 +/- 8.37 and 50.63 +/- 5.33 mm respectively. The distances between the anterior and posterior horns were 24.13 +/- 4.19 and 11.31 +/- 3.86 mm for the same. The peripheral length and inter horn distance of the medial meniscus was more than the lateral, the statistically significance was observed (*p<0.05). The other parameters obtained were statistically not significant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The present study had determined some important anatomical data which may be of importance to the orthopaedic literature. The findings are also enlightening for the anthropologists and clinical anatomists.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Anatomy, Manipal University, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India. drmanju_22@rediffmail.com
authors.forename: B V
authors.initials: BV
authors.lastname: Murlimanju
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nair
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Krishnamurthy
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chethan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002102:Cadaver; D006801:Humans; D008592:Menisci, Tibial / Q000033:anatomy & histology*