Diagnostic accuracy of meniscal injury between nuclear magnetic resonance and arthrscopy at the La Trinidad Teaching Medical Center

Abstract

The meniscus are two fibrocartilaginous structures in the knee joint between the femur and the tibia, which tend to suffer frequent damage. To identify the type of injury, imaging studies are needed, the importance of diagnosing this condition either through MRI and the decision to apply arthroscopy in the diagnosis and subsequent treatment that leads to the consideration of the imaging correlation of magnetic resonance imaging with evidence of meniscal injury in comparison with arthroscopic findings in patients treated in the Knee Unit of the La Trinidad Medical Teaching Center During the period January 2023 to June 2023, this work is an explanatory correlational investigation, with the contribution of observational techniques and descriptive-prospective cross-sectional design, it was contextualized population-wise for a total of 52 patients. An average age range of 47.62 years was evident, with the standard deviation 14.32 years. The predominant gender of meniscal injury was female with 52%. In 56% of the patients, the injury was in the right knee, 58% of the patients had an injury in the Posterior Horn, it was found that 71% had an injury to the internal meniscus. In conclusion, the results of our study on the specificity and sensitivity in the lesions should be noted that the use of MRI showed a relatively high margin of specificity and sensitivity for each of the meniscal lesions, concluding that it is the imaging study of choice as a means. paraclinical to confirm and corroborate said pathology.