Hroscopic Medial Gutter Knee

The arthroscopic instruments were inserted through a medical infrapatellar puncture site.

Hroscopic medial gutter knee.

Diagnostic arthroscopy is a crucial skill for diagnosing intra articular disorders of the knee including meniscal. Look carefully for erosion of the condyle with an irregular radius of curvature of the femoral. This needs to be precise and accurate both for the viewing portal and for the instrumentation portal. On arthroscopy flap tears were found displaced inferiorly and trapped in the medial gutter in 6 of the 8 patients.

With knee flexed to 90 move to medial compartment. Examination of suprapatellar pouch revealed copious synovial fluid. Diagnostic arthroscopy of the knee joint typically begins with the arthroscope placed through an anterolateral portal into the knee joint. Medial femoral condyle cartilage.

Portal creation is noted in the previous chapter. The arthroscope and probe are the two pieces of equipment that are fundamental to knee arthroscopy fig. Medial tibial plateau cartilage. A standard arthroscopic shaver and radiofrequency rf ablation device are used to debride the patellofemoral joint and the suprapatellar pouch with the knee in extension releasing all adhesions hypertrophied synovium and intra articular bands.

Arthroscopy includes visualization of the suprapatellar pouch medial gutter lateral gutter medial compart ment lateral compartment intercondylar notch and posterior medial and posterior lateral compartments. The arthroscope is named according to the angle between the long axis of the arthroscope and the viewing angle of the lens with 0 30 and 70 lenses available for use. The arthroscopic pump was inserted through a medial suprapatellar puncture site. 29883 arthroscopy knee surgical.

Arthroscopic resection of the anvil osteophyte can improve knee extension in these selected patients. 29881 arthroscopy knee surgical with meniscectomy medial or lateral including any meniscal shaving including debridement shaving of articular cartilage chondroplasty same or separate compartment s when performed during a meniscectomy the surgeon removes a piece of the torn meniscus or the entire meniscus. There were multiple cartilaginous loose joint bodies floating around within the knee.