Incidencia de lesiones de meniscos diagnosticado mediante resonancia magnética en el departamento de Imagenología del Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga, Cuenca. Enero - junio 2018

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Magnetic resonance is the standard gold test in the study of soft tissue injuries, presenting 95% sensitivity and 91% specificity, allowing anatomical images of the knee with high resolution and contrast (1). OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of meniscus lesions diagnosed by magnetic resonance in the department of imaging at Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga, during. January - June 2018. METHODOLOGY: A descriptive prospective descriptive study was carried out. The universe consisted of 361 clinical histories of patients who underwent MRI of the knee; we proceeded to the revision of clinical histories, later the information was tabulated according to the variables: age, sex, type of injury, laterality, anatomical side and traumatic antecedent. The data were analyzed with the statistical program SPSS version 23, making frequency tables constructed in Excel. RESULTS: We studied 332 clinical records of patients who presented meniscal injury, being common in patients from 29 to 37 years old (29.2%), with primacy in male sex (64.8%). The meniscal grade II injury was the most usual, with 154 patients (46%), presenting with equal frequency (50%) in both knees. The patients who had lesions in both menisci correspond to 66.6%, with a higher incidence in the internal meniscus (18.4%), presenting a traumatic antecedent in 37%. CONCLUSIONS: The patients with the highest meniscal lesion are men from 29 to 37 years old, with grade II injury being the most common, affecting both knees equally