MRI Diagnosis of Sports Meniscus Injury and Evaluation of Postoperative Rehabilitation Effect

doi:10.7517/issn.1674-0475.211206

Abstract

Abstract: This article investigated the value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in diagnosing the degree of sports-induced meniscus injury in young and middle-aged patients and the postoperative rehabilitation effect of patients. A retrospective study was performed on 98 patients with sports-induced meniscus injury treated. All patients received high-frequency ultrasound and MRI examinations before surgery, and all patients received arthroscopic surgical repair. The results showed that the sensitivity and specificity of MRI in diagnosing knee meniscus injury by preoperative MRI were 90.00% and 88.16%, the sensitivity and specificity of knee ligament injury by MRI were 76.79% and 97.02% respectively. The MRI damage grade of knee meniscus at 3 months and 6 months after operation was significantly lower than that before operation, and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). 6 months after the operation, the knee joint function grade was positively correlated with MRI meniscus recovery grade (r=0.850, P<0.001). MRI has high diagnostic value in the diagnosis of young and middle-aged sports meniscus injury, and could also evaluate the postoperative rehabilitation effect of patients.

Key words: magnetic resonance imaging, diagnostic value, young and middle-aged, meniscus injury, rehabilitation effect

LI Yan, ZHAO Hailing, LI Wei, ZHAO Dan. MRI Diagnosis of Sports Meniscus Injury and Evaluation of Postoperative Rehabilitation Effect[J]. IMAGING SCIENCE AND PHOTOCHEMISTRY, 2022, 40(3): 675-679.

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