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3 Arthroscopic pictures of the knee: Normal, meniscus tear, and arthritis
Knee
This is the inside of the knee. The first picture is a good example of a fairly normal really smooth surface with a normal meniscus. The meniscus is a cartilage rim that helps absorb the shock of loads on the knee. Notice the smooth white surface. This is what you want your knee to look like. The next picture is a torn meniscus. This patient complained of swelling, locking, and giving way of the knee after a softball injury. We trimmed the loose and torn part of the cartilage and the patient has returned to work and softball without any problem. The last picture is of arthritis. See the raw bone surface? Notice the lack of white shiny cartilage on the surface. This patient had severe arthritis and will soon have to have a knee replacement. If we had not trimmed the cartilage in the second picture, that knee would soon look like the knee in the third picture.
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