Mohan B R, Gosal Harminder S
Stoke Mandeville Hospital, 15, Aston House, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK.
Int Orthop. 2007 Feb;31(1):57-60. doi: 10.1007/s00264-006-0131-x. Epub 2006 Apr 22.
This retrospective study was conducted to analyse the reliability of clinical diagnosis in meniscal tear injuries. All patients attending our clinic with knee pain from January 2003 to December 2004 underwent systematic and thorough clinical assessment. One hundred and fifty patients were clinically diagnosed to have meniscal tears. All these patients underwent therapeutic arthroscopic knee surgery. The clinical diagnosis was confirmed during this procedure. The accuracy, sensitivity and specificity were calculated based on these arthroscopic findings. The accuracy of clinical diagnosis in our study was 88% for medial meniscal tears and 92% for lateral meniscal tears. The results of this study demonstrate that clinical diagnosis of meniscal tears is as reliable as the results published by other authors for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. We recommend the use of MRI for more doubtful, difficult and complex knee injuries.
本回顾性研究旨在分析半月板撕裂伤临床诊断的可靠性。2003年1月至2004年12月期间,所有因膝关节疼痛前来我院就诊的患者均接受了系统、全面的临床评估。150例患者临床诊断为半月板撕裂。所有这些患者均接受了治疗性膝关节镜手术。在此手术过程中,临床诊断得到了证实。根据这些关节镜检查结果计算了准确性、敏感性和特异性。在我们的研究中,内侧半月板撕裂临床诊断的准确性为88%,外侧半月板撕裂为92%。本研究结果表明,半月板撕裂的临床诊断与其他作者发表的磁共振成像(MRI)扫描结果一样可靠。对于更可疑、困难和复杂的膝关节损伤,我们建议使用MRI。