PURLs: surgery for persistent knee pain? Not so fast

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Mallory McClester Brown et al. J Fam Pract. 2014 Sep.

. 2014 Sep;63(9):534-6.

¹ Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Abstract

For patients with knee pain from a torn medial meniscus, but no osteoarthritis, arthroscopic partial meniscectomy may not be necessary.

Arthroscopic partial meniscectomy versus sham surgery for a degenerative meniscal tear.
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