Ontario health technology assessment series
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Ont Health Technol Assess Ser · Jan 2014
ReviewArthroscopic Debridement of the Knee: An Evidence Update.
Patients with knee pain as a result of osteoarthritis or degenerative meniscal injury may seek treatment through arthroscopic surgery. How effective arthroscopic debridement with or without meniscectomy is for relieving pain and improving patients' functional outcomes is uncertain. ⋯ The evidence does not show the superiority of arthroscopic debridement with or without meniscectomy in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee or with meniscal injury from degenerative causes.