Bilateral discoid medial menisci: an adult patient with symmetrical radial tears in both knees

Bilateral discoid medial menisci: association with bone changes in the tibia

“…The clinical manifestations are rather nonspecific. Pain not related to a definite trauma was the predominant symptom of all the reported cases [2,3,4,8,9,10,11,12,14,15,17]. In addition to this main complaint, our patient had a persistent swelling and effusion, which was mentioned by several authors but has not been considered an important symptom [1,8,10,11,12,17].…”

“…In the case of our patient, who had bilateral discoid menisci, there was no snapping sound on knee motion. Other reports of discoid medial menisci have also not mentioned the presence of such a finding [1,2,3,4,6,8,10,11,12,13,14,17].…”

“…There is depression of the medial tibial plateau with decreased intensity in the subchondral medulla suggestive of reactive sclerosis a b a b [6]. Only 11 cases of bilateral medial discoid menisci have been reported [2,3,4,8,11,13,14]. Associated tibial osseous changes with discoid medial menisci were mentioned in three cases in the literature; however, only two of these cases had bilateral anomalies [11,17].…”

Medial and lateral discoid menisci: a case report

“…Lateral discoid menisci with symptomatic tears are well-known lesions that are usually thought to affect mostly children and adolescent [7,20]. It is also not common for a discoid meniscus to become symptomatic and present with a tear in adulthood [6,7].…”

Bilateral complete discoid medial meniscus: how many cases? Associated pathologies?

“…In 1998, we presented a case with bilateral discoid medial menisci (BDMM) and reviewed the literature [1]. Pinar et al added two more cases to BDMM series in 2000, and the number of the cases reached 11 at that time [7].…”