Arthroscopic advantages:
1, small incision, beautiful, can avoid late irritation caused by scarring of joint surface and moving parts;
2. Minimally invasive surgery, less painful, less postoperative reaction, easy for patients to accept;
3.The patient can move and use the limb early after surgery, avoiding long-term bed-ridden complications and reducing nursing staff and costs;
4.Less complications than open surgery;
5. Basically, the muscle structure around the joint is not affected, and functional exercises can be performed early after surgery to prevent disuse and complications caused by long-term fixation of the joint;
6.It is possible to observe and examine intra-articular lesions in a near physiological environment, which is known as “putting eyes and fingers into the joint”, and it is possible to perform dynamic examination of the joint, which improves the diagnostic ability, and certain diseases such as synovial fold syndrome are established only through arthroscopy;
7. Arthroscopy can perform procedures that were difficult to perform with open surgery.
Arthroscopic indications:
1, diagnostic examination of the knee joint: including the examination of knee disorders with unclear clinical diagnosis, biopsy of intra-articular lesions, and diagnostic confirmation before open surgery to obtain visual information about the condition;
2. total resection, subtotal resection, partial resection, suturing and disc cartilage molding of meniscus or disc meniscus injury and degeneration;
3.Synovial biopsy and synovectomy for different types of synovitis, including rheumatoid arthritis and other synovial lesions;
4, joint debridement and irrigation and drainage for septic arthritis;
5, removal of foci of knee tuberculosis;
6. excision of synovial strangulation syndrome
7, excision of hypertrophic fat pad;
8, Synovial chondromatosis and other causes of intra-articular free body or intra-articular foreign body removal;
9.Joint flushing and joint cleaning for osteoarthritis and cartilage scraping and drilling;
10.Resetting and internal fixation of exfoliative osteochondritis or intra-articular fracture;
11, repair or reconstruction surgery after cruciate ligament injury;
12, patellofemoral joint lesions caused by patellar dislocation or subluxation: release of the lateral support band and tightening and suturing of the medial support band;
13.Crystal removal for gout of knee joint.