Meniscus - discoid meniscus

• MENISCUS OVERVIEW
• intro
• functional anatomy
• anatomy issues
• terminology
• mechanisms of injury
• diagnosis
• tears - position
• tears - types
• meniscectomy
• repair
• replacement
• discoid meniscus
• meniscal cyst

A discoid meniscus is a developmental anomaly - it just happens - when a person is born with a meniscus more like a flat round disc than a C-shaped wedge.

There may be no symptoms, and cause a surgeon some confusion when he peers into the joint and sees this unusual structure. Quite often, though, discoid menisci may be symptomatic, the symptoms commonly beginning in childhood -

• clicking or 'clunking' of the knee in certain positions
• giving way
• pain

They can tear like any other meniscus and cause locking and joint line pain.