Clinical and Medical Case Reports

Faya A Asiri

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• Case Report
  A Bucket-Handle Tear in a Discoid Lateral Meniscus: A Case Report and Literature Review
  Author(s): Faya A Asiri, Adel Al-Ahaidib and Abdulaziz Al-AhaidebFaya A Asiri, Adel Al-Ahaidib and Abdulaziz Al-Ahaideb
  
  Objective: Bucket-handle tears constitute about 10% of all meniscal tears. We aimed to report a case of a bucket-handle tear in a lateral discoid meniscus due to sports injury and to review the current pertaining literature. Case Report: A 32-year-old male presented with pain, intermittent swelling, clicking and locking symptoms of his right knee for 3 months following a twisting injury while playing football. On physical examination, there were neither effusion, redness, nor scars. He had tender medial and lateral joint lines with a full range of motion. Radiograph of the knee showed widened lateral joint space and medial joint space narrowing. MRI showed increased thickness and flattening of the lateral meniscus with loss of the natural bow-tie configuration reflecting the presence of discoid meniscus. There was signal alteration within th.. Read More»
  

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