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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2011 Feb;63(2):208–215. doi: 10.1002/acr.20354

Figure 1. Probability of having symptomatic meniscal tear given number of symptoms endorsed in meniscal symptom index.

Figure 1

The bars show the percent of patients with symptomatic meniscal tear, stratified by the number of symptoms endorsed in the meniscal symptom index. This index is comprised of the following four symptoms, expressed as expanded descriptions: clicking (Do you feel a clicking sensation or hear a clicking noise when you move your knee?), catching (Do you feel that sometimes something is caught in your knee that momentarily prevents movement?), giving way (Do you sometimes feel that your knee will give out and not support your weight?) and localized pain (Is your knee pain centered to 1 spot on the knee that you can point to with your finger?). Endorsed items are added, without weighting, to yield an index with possible range from 0 to 4. The error bars represent the 95% confidence intervals.

*symptoms included: clicking, catching, giving way and localized pain