A meniscectomy is a type of surgery that’s used to treat a damaged meniscus. A meniscus is a structure made of cartilage that helps your knee work properly. You have two of them in each knee: lateral ...

What Is a Meniscus Tear? You have two c-shaped disks of cartilage (soft tissue) that connect your thigh bone to your shinbone. These are called menisci. They’re like shock absorbers for your bones.

Partial meniscectomy does not improve patient symptoms or function, reveals a 10-year follow-up of the FIDELITY, a placebo-surgery controlled trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

We conducted a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled trial in 146 patients 35 to 65 years of age who had knee symptoms consistent with a degenerative medial meniscus tear and no knee ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Meniscectomy within 1 year prior to knee arthroplasty may be a risk factor for poor functional outcomes.

Whether arthroscopic partial meniscectomy for symptomatic patients with a meniscal tear and knee osteoarthritis results in better functional outcomes than nonoperative therapy is uncertain. We ...

WEDNESDAY, May 6, 2026 (HealthDay News) -- For adults with degenerative median meniscal tear without radiographic evidence of established osteoarthritis, arthroscopic partial meniscectomy does not ...

Correspondence to Dr Lars Engebretsen, Department of Ortho surg, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway; lars.engebretsen{at}medisin.uio.no In the interesting linked article,1 authors Dr Raine Sihvonen ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Partial meniscectomy with needle arthroscopy had lower opioid consumption vs. standard arthroscopy. Early pain ...