> "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.
Fancy doctor talk saying that they removed a large chunk of Meniscus in your knee that's in the direction of your thigh (as opposed to the Meniscus that's outward). Looks like they're saying it was a large tear and wasn't fixable.
> 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.
Looks like fancy doctor talker is saying that your cartilage that covers your Tibia (upper leg bone), had some kinda tear that was 8mm (metric) at the center of the...."condyle posteiriorly" 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."
They shaved and repaired some of the Meniscus on the lateral (the area that points away from ur thigh) part of your knee.
> 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
Yeah, the other docs can give you more info. Looks like they did some cutting though.
