Patients were considered ineligible if they had clinical or MRI evidence of structural concomitant injuries that necessitated surgical intervention (eg, an unstable bucket-handle meniscal tear) or a ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the imaging study of choice ... tear needs repair, but a meniscal tear is only suspected.

Patients were aged 18 to 65 years (mean 31.3, SD 10.5), 60% male sex (n=100). We evaluated the presence and location of meniscal tears by baseline MRI. We analysed and compared how many patients per ...