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Displaced flap tear of medial meniscus

Case contributed by Dalia Ibrahim
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Trauma to knee

Patient Data

Age: 45 years
Gender: Male

Torn body and posterior horn of medial meniscus with truncation of its body and superior displacement of the meniscal fragment into the superior meniscal recess.

Torn ACL.

Mild joint effusion. 

Annotated image

Displaced tear of the medial meniscus with the meniscal fragment (arrows) lying in the superior meniscal recess interposed between the medial femoral condyle and the medial collateral ligament. 

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