title: Bilateral bucket handle medial meniscal tears of the knee: A case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Meniscal tears may cause knee pain and functional impairment. Bilateral bucket-handle meniscal tears is an uncommon condition.
  
  
  METHODS
  This report presents the case of a 35-year-old male patient with bilateral bucket handle medial meniscal tears that occurred nonsimultaneously. The lesions were treated arthroscopically with partial resection in one knee and meniscal suture in the other.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Bucket handle meniscal tear of meniscus without underlying meniscal, ligamentous pathology or lower limb deformity is a rare condition.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To our knowledge, bilateral bucket handle medial meniscal tears without underlying meniscal anomalies have been reported in only two cases before, and our case is the third one.
authors.affiliation: Sisli Etfal Training and Research Hospital, Orthopaedics and Traumatology Department, Istanbul, Turkey. Electronic address: mrhbs@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Hasan Basri
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Sezer
authors.forename: Yavuz
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Arikan
authors.forename: Raffi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Armagan
authors.forename: Osman Tugrul
authors.initials: OT
authors.lastname: Eren
keywords: Bilateral; Buckle handle; Meniscal tear