Ten years' experience in arthroscopic treatment of discoid lateral meniscus

ABSTRACT

Between March 1991 and April 2001, over 1800 arthroscopic meniscus surgeries were performed at our unit of arthroscopy. Seventy-three of these procedures were for the treatment of discoid lateral meniscus in seventy patients, three were bilateral. The age of the patients was nine to thirty two at the time of operation [average 22 years]. The patients were categorized according to Watanabe's classification into complete [58 Knees], incomplete [14 Knees] and Wrisberg type [1 Knee]