Analysis of the Curative Effect of Arthroscopic Debridement on Knee Osteoarthritis and the Indication Selection
LI Shuang
LIU Guangdong
FU Xiuli
ZHAO Guichen
YANG Yingming
WANG Hao
Abstract：Objective To investigate the curative effect of arthroscopic debridement for the knee osteoarthritis. Methods From July 2012 to July 2013, 39 patients with osteoarthritis were treated by arthroscopic debridement in our hospital. KSS score were used to evaluate knee joints before and after operations and the results were statistically analyzed. Results In postoperative follow-up 8~12 months, 9.3 months on average, the knee scores of the 39 patients at last follow-up were (40.74 ±2.26), (67.37 ±6.74), and the total score is (108.11 ± 8.08), and the data was statistically significant compared with that before operation (P<0.05). According to the KSS evaluation criteria, 19 patients reached excellent, 13 good, 5 fair and 2 bad. The excellent and good rate was 82.10%. Of 5 cases of advanced patients of imaging findings, according to postoperative KSS score, 3 cases are fair and 2 cases were poor. Conclu-sions Arthroscopic debridement on knee osteoarthritis proves to satisfactorily effective to the treatment of knee osteoarthritis. But ar-throscopic debridement was not recommended for patients diagnosed as at the late stage through imaging findings.
Keywords：knee jointarthroscopyosteoarthritisindication
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 33-35 )