Table 2.
Meniscal injury and procedures by registry and procedure type
| Primary ACLR | NKLR a |
KP ACLRR b |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary (n = 10,468) n (%) |
Revision (n = 749) n (%) |
Primary (n = 7,275) n (%) |
Revision (n = 493) n (%) |
|
| Meniscal pathology (any) | 5,081 (48.5) | 266 (35.5) | 4,563 (62.7) | 246 (49.9) |
| Medial meniscal tear | 3,208 (30.6) | 176 (23.5) | 2,980 (41.0) | 197 (40.0) |
| Procedure | ||||
| Repair | 779 (24.3) | 36 (20.5) | 837 (28.1) | 42 (21.3) |
| Menisectomy | 2,052 (64.0) | 125 (71.0) | 1,241 (41.6) | 91 (46.2) |
| Trephinated | 51 (1.6) | 2 (1.1) | 45 (1.5) | 0 (0.0) |
| Rasped | Na | Na | 245 (8.2) | 14 (7.1) |
| Left in situ | 372 (11.6) | 17 (9.7) | 93 (3.1) | 3 (1.5) |
| Unknown | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 519 (17.4) | 47 (23.9) |
| Lateral meniscal tear | 2,520 (24.1) | 109 (14.6) | 2,800 (38.5) | 109 (22.1) |
| Procedure | ||||
| Repair | 322 (12.8) | 16 (14.7) | 487 (17.4) | 20 (18.3) |
| Menisectomy | 1,794 (71.2) | 77 (70.6) | 1,413 (50.5) | 54 (49.5) |
| Trephinated | 44 (1.7) | 2 (1.8) | 46 (1.6) | 1 (0.9) |
| Rasped | Na | Na | 178 (6.4) | 7 (6.4) |
| Left in situ | 391 (15.5) | 18 (16.5) | 169 (6.0) | 5 (4.6) |
| Unknown | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 507 (18.1) | 22 (20.2) |
a Norway: 26 revisions (3.5%) did not have location and treatment information. Rasped was not registered. In repair, both synthetic and sutures are included. In addition to procedures shown in the table, there was 1 primary case (lateral) and there were 2 revision cases (medial) with meniscal transplants.
b Kaiser Permanente: data available for a limited sample.
For abbreviations, see Table 1