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In daily clinical practice, treatment of symptomatic meniscal lesion regardless of the status of other intra-articular structures is based on two options: the complete or partial resection of the meniscal tissue with meniscectomy or the notion of meniscal preservation with the concept of meniscal economy. Initially, with the fabulous development of arthroscopy, subtotal meniscectomy was the most frequently used treatment.
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Hulet, C. (2016). Synthesis. In: Hulet, C., Pereira, H., Peretti, G., Denti, M. (eds) Surgery of the Meniscus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49188-1_38
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