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The authors performed a statistical study on a series of 1000 patients examined with double-contrast fluoroscopically-guided knee arthrography. Arthrographic diagnoses were compared with the arthrotomic (500 patients), arthroscopic (350 patients) or clinical diagnoses of 150 patients with a follow-up of 6 months. In this series of patients with a history of "recurrent meniscal injury", arthrographic diagnoses were confirmed in a high percentage of cases, with 96.9% accuracy, 96.7% sensitivity for tears, and 98.6% specificity. On the basis of these results the authors suggest double-contrast arthrography as an examination of considerable value in the diagnosis of meniscal lesions, while in their opinion arthroscopy should be limited to questionable cases, to complex lesions with involvement of multiple articular structure and to the alterations clearly treatable by arthroscopy.
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