Partial or total meniscectomy: a comparative analysis
McGinity, J.B.; Geuss, L.F.; Marvin, R.A.
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume 59(6): 763-766
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-9355 PMID: 908700 Document Number: 114356
We studied a total of 128 cases of meniscectomy, eighty-nine total and thirty-nine partial, and evaluated the relative postoperative morbidity. The patients who had a partial meniscectomy had a shorter hospital stay and spent less time using crutches. Those with a total meniscectomy had four times the incidence of major postoperative complications. Partial meniscectomy gave better subjective functional results and better anatomical results in all the criteria studied.