1. Risk Factors for Meniscectomy After Meniscal Repair.
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Lyman, Stephen, Hidaka, Chisa, Valdez, Ana S., Hetsroni, Iftach, Pan, Ting Jung, Do, Huong, Dunn, Warren R., and Marx, Robert G.
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AGE distribution ,ANTERIOR cruciate ligament surgery ,CONFIDENCE intervals ,DATABASES ,EPIDEMIOLOGY ,EPIDEMIOLOGICAL research ,FORECASTING ,MENISCECTOMY ,MENISCUS injuries ,MULTIVARIATE analysis ,NOSOLOGY ,RESEARCH funding ,EMPLOYEES' workload ,DATA analysis ,TREATMENT effectiveness ,PROPORTIONAL hazards models ,CASE-control method ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
The article presents a study that measures the frequency of meniscal repairs, discover the failure rate for a meniscal repair as reflected by subsequent meniscectomies. The study determines the risk factors for a subsequent meniscectomy after repair in a large population-based cohort. It supports the notion that repairing a meniscus is a safe and effective procedure in the long term.
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- 2013
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