Table 1. Patient demographics.

SD: standard deviation, n/a: not applicable

	Pre-operative	Meniscectomy	Meniscal Repair
Number of patients	36	64	17
Age (mean (SD))	48 (14.5)	61 (11.3)	47 (17.7)
Gender (female : male)	9 : 27	28 : 36	4 : 13
Knee Laterality (right : left)	18 : 18	31 : 33	10 : 7
Smoking (yes : no)	6 : 29	3 : 60	2 : 15
Follow-up time from surgery (months) (mean, range)	n/a	57 (14 - 91)	47 (16 - 86)
Laterality of Meniscal Tea (medial : lateral : bilateral)	25 : 8 : 3	50 : 9 : 5	9 : 5 : 3