Hi All,
My 15 year old daughter has a tear in her meniscus. We see orthopedic doc on Monday. He indicated on the phone surgery will be required to fix. We'll get full run down on Monday.
What are your experiences or recommendations? Any medical experts want to give some advice? I ask only because I'm always suspicious of surgery recommendations, especially for a 15 year old. Are there other treatment methods or is this legit?
Copied from MRI report:
There is MR appearance of a large overall horizontally oriented meniscal tear involving the posterior horn and body of the medial meniscus. There is extension to both superior and inferior articular surfaces. The meniscal tear appears to extend to the meniscal root as seen on sagittal image 12 of series 7 with evidence of vertical truncation of the meniscal root. In addition, there is is appearance of a small, approximately 4 mm meniscal fragment displaced superiorly from the meniscal root, seen on image 17 series 5.
On coronal images 11 and 10 of series 5, appearance of an additional contiguous displaced meniscal fragment from the meniscal body, displaced inferiorly and medially, with this displaced meniscal fragment measuring approximately 6 mm and displacement measuring approximately 6 mm.
My 15 year old daughter has a tear in her meniscus. We see orthopedic doc on Monday. He indicated on the phone surgery will be required to fix. We'll get full run down on Monday.
What are your experiences or recommendations? Any medical experts want to give some advice? I ask only because I'm always suspicious of surgery recommendations, especially for a 15 year old. Are there other treatment methods or is this legit?
Copied from MRI report:
There is MR appearance of a large overall horizontally oriented meniscal tear involving the posterior horn and body of the medial meniscus. There is extension to both superior and inferior articular surfaces. The meniscal tear appears to extend to the meniscal root as seen on sagittal image 12 of series 7 with evidence of vertical truncation of the meniscal root. In addition, there is is appearance of a small, approximately 4 mm meniscal fragment displaced superiorly from the meniscal root, seen on image 17 series 5.
On coronal images 11 and 10 of series 5, appearance of an additional contiguous displaced meniscal fragment from the meniscal body, displaced inferiorly and medially, with this displaced meniscal fragment measuring approximately 6 mm and displacement measuring approximately 6 mm.
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