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Advantages and Limitations
| Advantages | Limitations |
|---|---|
| Safe: no additional incision | Cost |
| Quick | Need biomechanical assessment |
| Easy to perform: technique similar to classical stiches | The holes induced by the device can be the departure of newly formed lesion (Tachibana effect) |
| Conventional instrumentation | |
| Good exposure of the bottom side of meniscus | |
| Top to bottom compression: theoretically better healing | |
| Feasible for very peripheral tears |
