PMID: 18410035Apr 16, 2008Paper

Validity of clinical and ultrasound examination related to arthroscopy in acute injury of the medial meniscus of the knee

Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo
Sladjan TimotijevićZoran Bascavević

Abstract

Injuries of the medial meniscus of the knee are constantly present in sports, but also in common life activities. Diagnostic procedures which are available today in the diagnosis and estimation of the severity of intraarticular knee structures are numerous, but they are not available, plausible and valid at the same manner. The aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic validity of clinical and ultrasound examination related to arthroscopy in acute injury of the medial meniscus of the knee. This prospective study analyzed 198 hospitalised patients, treated from 2004 to 2006 at the Belgrade Institute for Orthopaedic Surgery "Banjica" and Belgrade Special Orthopaedic Surgery Hospital "Decedra", who underwent arthroscopy. Before the arthroscopy, clinical and ultrasound examinations were performed. The values of sensitivity (91.1%), specificity (80.0%), positive predictive value (83.6%) and negative predictive value (88.9%) of ultrasound examination of acute injury of the medial meniscus are proportionately lower as compared to the values of sensitivity (97.2%), specificity (90.2%), positive predictive value (86.0%) and negative predictive value (98.2%) of ultrasound examination in chronic injuries of the medial meniscus of th...Continue Reading

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Sep 25, 2001·European Journal of Ultrasound : Official Journal of the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology·D Lee, J A Bouffard
Oct 5, 2001·JAMA : the Journal of the American Medical Association·D H SolomonJ L Schaffer

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Oct 11, 2011·European Journal of Radiology·Pawel Wareluk, Kazimierz T Szopinski

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