Meniscus Root Tear: Extended Classification of LaPrade and Repair Techniques

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Meniscus Root Tear: Extended Classification of LaPrade and Repair Techniques

By sheetal gupta 13 Videos FEATURING sheetal gupta, Ashish Bc, Sachin Chavan

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October 13, 2024

Meniscus root injury is considered equivalent to total meniscectomy due to increased peak forces, rapid ...
read more ↘ cartilage damage, and a higher risk of progressive arthrosis. Lateral-sided meniscus root tear is commonly acute, traumatic, and associated with ACL tear in 80% of cases . Medial meniscus root tear in contrast is mostly chronic, degenerative, and associated with cartilage degeneration. Classification of root tears, based on the morphology of the tear, was described by LaPrade et al in 2015. They have described five different morphological patterns of root tears, with type 2 being subdivided into three subtypes. In this article, we described three more morphological patterns of root tears and extends the classification of la parade as type 6,7, and type 8 root tears along with surgical methods for these individual types.
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