[The prospects for using knee joint arthroscopy in military hospitals].

The authors described personal experience performing 263 knee joint arthroscopies in military medical institutions. It allowed them to improve the diagnosis of joint diseases and lesions and to increase its accuracy up to 92%. Four levels of endoscopist's competence defining the accuracy of diagnostic and quality of surgical joint arthroscopy was distinguished. It was determined that knee arthroscopy in servicemen has a great importance in meniscus pathology to define the indications to arthrotomy and to choice rational surgical access. Thus, diagnostic accuracy is 88%. In the knee joint gunshot injuries it is reasonable to fulfil arthroscopy with medicative purpose to ablate intra-articular foreign bodies and also for sanitation and drainage of its cavity.