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It is undoubtedly the trend now to perform only partial meniscectomy [1,3], to diagnose meniscal injuries by arthroscopy and to treat them with arthroscopic visualization [2]. Arthroscopic operations have now been widely performed in North America and Europe for some years, not least because this allows videomonitoring and because athletes demand short rehabilitation times.
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Gächter, A. (1986). Meniscectomy by mini-arthrotomy under local anaesthesia. In: Trickey, E.L., Hertel, P. (eds) Surgery and Arthroscopy of the Knee. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71022-3_43
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