Symptomatic Bilateral Torn Discoid Medial Meniscus Treated with Saucerization and Suture

Discoid meniscus is an anatomical congenital anomaly more often found in the lateral meniscus. A discoid medial meniscus is a very rare anomaly, and even more rare is to diagnose a bilateral discoid medial meniscus although the real prevalence of this situation is unknown because not all the discoid...

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Main Authors:	Sevillano-Perez, Enrique, Espejo-Reina, Alejandro, Espejo-Reina, María Josefa
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5021470/

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spelling	pubmed-50214702016-09-21 Symptomatic Bilateral Torn Discoid Medial Meniscus Treated with Saucerization and Suture Sevillano-Perez, Enrique Espejo-Reina, Alejandro Espejo-Reina, María Josefa Case Report Discoid meniscus is an anatomical congenital anomaly more often found in the lateral meniscus. A discoid medial meniscus is a very rare anomaly, and even more rare is to diagnose a bilateral discoid medial meniscus although the real prevalence of this situation is unknown because not all the discoid medial menisci are symptomatic and if the contralateral knee is not symptomatic then it is not usually studied. The standard treatment of this kind of pathology is partial meniscectomy. Currently the tendency is to be very conservative so suture and saucerization of a torn discoid meniscus when possible are gaining support. We present the case of a 13-year-old patient who was diagnosed with symptomatic torn bilateral discoid medial meniscus treated by suturing the tear and saucerization. To the best of our knowledge this is the first case reported of bilateral torn discoid medial meniscus treated in this manner in the same patient. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5021470/ /pubmed/27656305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8487194 Text en Copyright © 2016 Enrique Sevillano-Perez et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Sevillano-Perez, Enrique Espejo-Reina, Alejandro Espejo-Reina, María Josefa
spellingShingle	Sevillano-Perez, Enrique Espejo-Reina, Alejandro Espejo-Reina, María Josefa Symptomatic Bilateral Torn Discoid Medial Meniscus Treated with Saucerization and Suture
author_facet	Sevillano-Perez, Enrique Espejo-Reina, Alejandro Espejo-Reina, María Josefa
author_sort	Sevillano-Perez, Enrique
title	Symptomatic Bilateral Torn Discoid Medial Meniscus Treated with Saucerization and Suture
title_short	Symptomatic Bilateral Torn Discoid Medial Meniscus Treated with Saucerization and Suture
title_full	Symptomatic Bilateral Torn Discoid Medial Meniscus Treated with Saucerization and Suture
title_fullStr	Symptomatic Bilateral Torn Discoid Medial Meniscus Treated with Saucerization and Suture
title_full_unstemmed	Symptomatic Bilateral Torn Discoid Medial Meniscus Treated with Saucerization and Suture
title_sort	symptomatic bilateral torn discoid medial meniscus treated with saucerization and suture
description	Discoid meniscus is an anatomical congenital anomaly more often found in the lateral meniscus. A discoid medial meniscus is a very rare anomaly, and even more rare is to diagnose a bilateral discoid medial meniscus although the real prevalence of this situation is unknown because not all the discoid medial menisci are symptomatic and if the contralateral knee is not symptomatic then it is not usually studied. The standard treatment of this kind of pathology is partial meniscectomy. Currently the tendency is to be very conservative so suture and saucerization of a torn discoid meniscus when possible are gaining support. We present the case of a 13-year-old patient who was diagnosed with symptomatic torn bilateral discoid medial meniscus treated by suturing the tear and saucerization. To the best of our knowledge this is the first case reported of bilateral torn discoid medial meniscus treated in this manner in the same patient.
publisher	Hindawi Publishing Corporation
publishDate	2016
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5021470/
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Symptomatic Bilateral Torn Discoid Medial Meniscus Treated with Saucerization and Suture

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