Bucket handle meniscus tear .

Bucket handle meniscus tear: young or adult patients (35-55 years) can both suffer a medial meniscus tear. Typically the patient is in hyperflexion; when raised forcefully, the meniscus can remain "wedged" by the medial femoral condyle and the bucket handle meniscus tear prevents a complete extension of the knee, because the strip is luxated in the notch. A cracking can be felt by the patient associated with a sharp pain.

Mechanism which causes the luxation of a bucket handle in the notch. The meniscus has broken along the red line, but it remains attached to the peripheral capsule by the anterior and posterior horn: it thus forms a "bucket handle" shaped tear.

Bucket handle medial meniscus tear, dislocated in the notch. The strip dislocaed in the notch prevents a complete extension of the knee: it is meniscal locking (“true locking”).

Click on the image to see the removed meniscus …

Search with orthopedie.com

A: anterior cruciate ligament , arthroscopy, anterior cruciate ligament rehabilitation, anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, anterior cruciate ligament tear, arthroscopic knee surgery, anterior cruciate ligament injury, artificial ligaments,

B: bucket handle meniscus tear,

C: cartilage , cartilage graft

D: E: F: G: H: I: J:

K: Knee, knee rehabilitation, knee anatomy, knee osteoarthritis, knee arthritis, knee osteochondritis, knee replacement, knee osteotomy ,

M: meniscus , medial meniscus tear, meniscus tear, meniscus repair, meniscectomie saequeles, mri meniscus, mri knee ,

O: osteochondritis dissequans, osteoarthritis, osteotomy knee , osteonecrosis , osteochondral graft,

P:Partial knee replacement prosthesis unicompartimentale knee , posterior horn of medial meniscus, patellar knee arthritis,

R: rehabilitation

S: surgery meniscus,

T: total knee replacement, total knee prosthesis, torn meniscus,

V: valgum knee, varum knee

W: Y: Z:

Back ...