From: Symptomatic discoid lateral meniscus: a clinical and arthroscopic study in a Chinese population
Variants | Total | Gender | p- value | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Female | Male | ||||
Classification of DLM | Complete | 344 (69.4) | 235 (68.1) | 109 (72.2) | 0.5961b |
Incomplete | 149 (30) | 108 (31.3) | 41 (27.1) | ||
Wrisberg | 3 (0.6) | 2 (0.6) | 1 (0.7) | ||
Radial | 62 (12.5) | 44 (12.8) | 18 (11.9) | 0.5520a | |
Horizontal | 135 (27.2) | 91 (26.4) | 44 (29.14) | ||
Tear pattern | Longitudinal | 170 (34.3) | 123 (35.6) | 47 (31.13) | |
Complex | 99 (20) | 68 (19.7) | 31 (20.53) | ||
No tear | 30 (6) | 19 (5.5) | 11 (7.28) | ||
Medial meniscus | Tear | 11 (2.2) | 5 (1.4) | 6 (4) | 0.0578b |
No tear | 485 (97.8) | 340 (98.6) | 145 (96) |