The authors present 39 patients submitted to meniscus repair, and then analyze the various techniques used for suturing, emphasizing advantages, disadvantages, and complications. The results obtained with arthrotomic repair are not significantly different from those obtained with arthroscopic repair, except for the fact that the former method is less invasive. The stability of the knee is of essential importance to healing of a meniscal lesion. A long-term evaluation of the results obtained with meniscus repair is needed, as repetitive tearing has been described even after as many as three years.

Adolescent↗

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Out-patient arthroscopy.

The results and complications of knee arthroscopy performed using local (982) and truncular anesthesia (523) at the out-patient arthroscopy clinic of the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute between 1982 and 1994 were analyzed. Furthermore, the literature on technique and surgical indications for the use of out-patient arthroscopy with a 3 in 1 block was reviewed.

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Spontaneous recurrent hemarthrosis of the knee with lesion of the lateral meniscus and arthrosis of the lateral compartment.

One of the possible atraumatic causes of recurring hemarthrosis of the knee is constituted by the association of a lesion of the lateral meniscus with severe gonarthrosis of the lateral compartment. In the case described we were able to determine the cause of frequent bleeding (12 times in 15 months) in a traction caused by the injured meniscal tissue on the terminal branches of the geniculated arteries in the area of the popliteal hiatus. Thus, this clinical manifestation cannot be attributed to a synovial pathology. Total arthroscopic meniscectomy solved the problem.

Arthroscopy↗