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Inflammatory Foreign‐Body Reaction to an Arthroscopic Bioabsorbable Meniscal Arrow Repair

David Menche, Geoffrey I. Phillips, Mark I. Pitman, German C. Steiner

Arthroscopy The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery · 1999 · 86 citations · 12 references

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Abstract

Various arthroscopic meniscal repair techniques have been developed in recent years to preserve meniscal function. We report the case of a patient with a failed arthroscopic meniscal repair demonstrating an inflammatory foreign-body reaction to bioabsorbable meniscal arrows.

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