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Bilateral bucket handle medial meniscal tears of the knee: A case report
Hasan Basri Sezer1, Yavuz Arikan, Raffi Armagan
1Sisli Etfal Training and Research Hospital, Orthopaedics and Traumatology Department, Istanbul, Turkey.
Introduction:
Meniscal tears may cause knee pain and functional impairment. Bilateral bucket-handle meniscal tears is an uncommon condition.
Presentation Of Case:
This report presents the case of a 35-year-old male patient with bilateral bucket handle medial meniscal tears that occurred nonsimultaneously. The lesions were treated arthroscopically with partial resection in one knee and meniscal suture in the other.
Discussion:
Bucket handle meniscal tear of meniscus without underlying meniscal, ligamentous pathology or lower limb deformity is a rare condition.
Conclusion:
To our knowledge, bilateral bucket handle medial meniscal tears without underlying meniscal anomalies have been reported in only two cases before, and our case is the third one.
