Table 1.

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
The subjects were young patients that received arthroscopic meniscus repair (the subjects’ mean age in included studies was less than 30 years)	Studies that did not compare the effect of arthroscopic meniscus repair
	Studies regarding revision surgery
	Subjects who had congenital disease or congenital deformity
The studies evaluated clinical outcomes after arthroscopic meniscus repair in young patients	Studies reporting less than 2-year follow-up data on clinical outcome, functional and imaging outcomes
Studies reporting a minimum 2-year follow-up data on clinical outcome, functional and imaging outcomes	Level III, IV and V evidence (case report, technical note, letters to editor), review articles
Only included level-I or -II evidence	Studies that only reported non-clinical outcome measures or intraoperative measures were excluded
No exclusions were made on the basis of language
Human subjects	Animal studies or in vitro studies