The Relationship Between the Timing of Knee Osteoarthritis Diagnoses and Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy.
Semran B ThamerCorey T ResnickPaul M WerthDavid S JevsevarPublished in: The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (2023)
Despite evidence against APM in patients with knee OA, more than half of the patients (55.3%) had a previous diagnosis of OA within 12 months of surgery and 27.0% received a new diagnosis of knee OA within one year of surgery. A notable number of patients had a diagnosis of knee OA either before or shortly after APM.