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Traumatic and Degenerative Meniscus Lesions: Diagnosis and Classification

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Injury of the knee joint meniscus is one of the most prevalent injuries in the human body. The prevalence of an acute meniscal injury has been estimated of being 60 out of 100,000 patients. Analysis of 19,530 sports injuries over a 10-year period showed knee involvement in 39.8 %. Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries occurred in 20.3 %, while medial and lateral meniscus lesions in 10.8 % and 3.7 % respectively [1].

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Trauma, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessalia, Larissa, Greece

    Michael Hantes MD & Vasilios Raoulis MD

  2. Department of Orthopaedic and Traumatology, Centre of Joint Replacement, University Hospital of Brandenburgc “Theodor Fontane University”, Brandenburg, Germany

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Hantes, M., Raoulis, V., Becker, R. (2016). Traumatic and Degenerative Meniscus Lesions: Diagnosis and Classification. In: Randelli, P., Dejour, D., van Dijk, C., Denti, M., Seil, R. (eds) Arthroscopy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49376-2_7

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