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. 2012 Nov 26;83(6):577–582. doi: 10.3109/17453674.2012.741451

Table 2.

Meniscal injury and procedures by registry and procedure type

Primary ACLR NKLR a
KP ACLRR b
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