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Degenerative Meniscal Lesions: Indications

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A degenerative meniscal lesion (DML) is a meniscal tear, commonly involving a horizontal cleavage in the knee of a middle-aged or older person. It is characterized by linear intrameniscal signal (including a component with horizontal pattern) typically communicating with the inferior meniscal surface.

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The authors would like to thank the other steering group members of the ESSKA Meniscus Consensus Project: N Darabos, A Gokeler, M Hirschmann, C Hulet, T Järvela, H Mayr, P Ntagiopoulos, H Pereira, and R Verdonk.

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  1. Orthopaedic Department, Hôpital Andre Mignot, Le Chesnay, F78150, France

    Philippe Beaufils & N. Pujol

  2. Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Hospital Brandenburg, Medical University “Theodor Fontane”, Hochstrasse 26, Brandenburg, 14770, Germany

    R. Becker MD

  3. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, APHM, Institute for Locomotion, Sainte-Marguerite Hospital, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, ISM UMR 7287, Marseille, 13009, France

    M. Ollivier

  4. Center for Musculo Skeletal Surgery, Charité-University Medicin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, Berlin, 10117, Germany

    S. Kopf

  5. Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Orthopaedics, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    M. Englund

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Beaufils, P., Becker, R., Ollivier, M., Kopf, S., Pujol, N., Englund, M. (2016). Degenerative Meniscal Lesions: Indications. 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_41

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