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  2. Lateral meniscus - Wikipedia

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    The lateral meniscus is less likely to be injured or torn than the medial meniscus. Diagnosis of lateral meniscus tear is done with McMurray's test.If a tear is detected, treatment depends on the type and size of the tear.

  3. Meniscus tear - Wikipedia

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    A tear of a meniscus is a rupturing of one or more of the fibrocartilage strips in the knee called menisci. When doctors and patients refer to "torn cartilage" in the knee, they actually may be referring to an injury to a meniscus at the top of one of the tibiae. Menisci can be torn during innocuous activities such as walking or squatting.

  4. Unhappy triad - Wikipedia

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    Then there is severe, which without treatment, a piece of meniscus may come loose and drift into the joint space. Tears include longitudinal, parrot-beak, flap, bucket handle, and mixed/complex. Epidemiology. Injury to the medial meniscus is about five times greater than injury to the lateral meniscus due to its anatomical attachment to the MCL ...

  5. Meniscus (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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    A meniscus (pl.: menisci or meniscuses) is a crescent-shaped fibrocartilaginous anatomical structure that, in contrast to an articular disc, only partly divides a joint cavity. [1] In humans, they are present in the knee, wrist, acromioclavicular, sternoclavicular, and temporomandibular joints; [2] in other animals they may be present in other ...

  6. Microfracture surgery - Wikipedia

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    Microfracture surgery. Left knee-joint from behind, showing interior ligaments. (Lateral meniscus and medial meniscus are cartilage.) Microfracture surgery is an articular cartilage repair surgical technique that works by creating tiny fractures in the underlying bone. This causes new cartilage to develop from a so-called super-clot.

  7. Meniscal cartilage replacement therapy - Wikipedia

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    Meniscal cartilage replacement therapy. Head of right tibia seen from above, showing menisci and attachments of ligaments. [edit on Wikidata] Left knee-joint from behind, showing interior ligaments. Meniscal cartilage replacement therapy is surgical replacement of the meniscus of the knee as a treatment for where the meniscus is so damaged that ...

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