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ACL Revision with Menisectomy and Repair - Could someone explain what this means
Posted By: Ken2008
Date: Wednesday, 27 August 2008, at 10:26 a.m.
"In the medial compartment, there was a very complex tear of the posterior horn medial meniscus which was peripheral at the meniscocapsular junction and also had horizontal flap tears. It was not repairable and therefore it was resected almost back to the capsule posteriorly. We contoured at the body but very little posterior horn was remaining.
The medial femoral condyle had a grade 4 full thickness cartilage lesion which was 8 mm in diameter in the center of the condyle posteiriorly. It was stable and left alone. Raminder of the cartilage was normal. Medial Tibial plateau was normal.
In the lateral compartment, there was a long tear in the posterior horn, lateral meniscus, adjacent to the intercondylar notch. IT was 10mm in length. It was reshened with a shaver and fixed with a single FasT-Fix and repaired anatatomically. Laterla tibial plateu was diffusely soft but intact. Lateral femoral condyle was normal."
The medial menisectomy section worried me a bit since the doctor had said not much was removed from it and it was stable. The lateral repair sounds like it was a single stitch and wasn't that big a deal - in fact today (2 weeks post op) he told me I should treat this like any other acl repair now and begin weightbearing as tolerated.
Could any of the experts such as Dr Mark, SueBW, or OLarry put their two cents in? Anyone else with a similar experience please feel free to contribute.
Many thanks, Ken
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- ACL Revision with Menisectomy and Repair - Could someone explain what this means (views: 136) -- Ken2008 -- Wednesday, 27 August 2008, at 10:26 a.m.
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