Clinical, MRI findings and arthroscopic correlation of the posterior horn meniscal injuries of the knee joint

Abstract

The knee joint is one of the most commonly injured joint due to sports activities fall from a bike and fall at home so they come with pain especially in acute condition its very difficult to rely only on the clinical examination to accurately find the diagnosis so the patient is subjected to many investigation like radiographs, ultrasonography and MRI later invasive modality like diagnostic arthroscopy.so we conducted a study to compare all the three modalities to arrive at the diagnosis like clinical examination, MR imaging and diagnostic arthroscopy to know the accuracy of each modality of diagnosis to detect the posterior horn meniscal injuries of the knee joint. There were 30 patients with 26 male and 4 female patients age ranging from 18 to 55 years. History of fall from a bike with twisting injury was most common. The sensitivity and specificity of clinical examination and MR imaging with respect to arthroscopy was 83.3% and 77.78% and 91.67% and 55.56% respectively. So diagnosing meniscal injuries is of great significance to decrease the morbidity of the patient.