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Complications and Pitfalls in Arthroscopic Meniscus Repair

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Repair of knee menisci was championed and popularized by DeHaven1 as an open procedure in the early 1980s. Coincidentally, arthroscopic surgery, which was introduced at about the same time, was found to provide reduced morbidity and improved results for much of the pathology of the knee joint. Naturally, arthroscopic concepts were applied to the problem of meniscus repair. Numerous surgeons contributed to developing arthroscopic meniscus repair techniques including Henning,2 Stone and Miller,3 Cannon,4 Rosenberg et a1,5 Warren,6 Morgan and Casscells,7 and others. Although complications occurred from the beginning, the frequency of complications became apparent when the Arthroscopic Association of North America’s (AANA) complication committee reported its retrospective analysis of 395,566 arthroscopies in 1986.8 Complications occurred along with meniscus repair in 2.4% of cases, almost five times the background complication rate of 0.56% in all arthroscopic cases.

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Mulhollan, J.S. (2001). Complications and Pitfalls in Arthroscopic Meniscus Repair. In: Malek, M.M. (eds) Knee Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87202-0_6

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