MENISCAL REPAIR BY SYNOVIAL FLAP TRANSFER - HEALING OF THE AVASCULAR ZONE IN RABBITS

Authors
CISA J BASORA J MADARNAS P GHIBELY A NAVARROQUILIS A
Citation
J. Cisa et al., MENISCAL REPAIR BY SYNOVIAL FLAP TRANSFER - HEALING OF THE AVASCULAR ZONE IN RABBITS, Acta orthopaedica Scandinavica, 66(1), 1995, pp. 38-40
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Orthopedics
Journal title
Acta orthopaedica Scandinavica → ACNP
ISSN journal
00016470
Volume
66
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
38 - 40
Database
ISI
SICI code
0001-6470(1995)66:1<38:MRBSFT>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
We studied repair of a longitudinal incision of the right medial menis cus in 44 rabbits after the transfer of a pedunculated synovial flap, without immobilization of the knee. The left medial meniscus was used as the control, after creating the same lesion without synovial flap. Healing was analyzed by histologic studies, including India ink perfus ion after 8, 12, 24, and 48 weeks, In three quarters of the cases, the meniscus showed healing with vascularization of an originally avascul ar zone.