Abstract: Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study is to identify how accurate MRI is in evaluating ligament injuries specifically meniscal injuries and thereby reliability of using MRI as a tool to identify those who do and don’t require surgery for ligament injury.
Materials and Methods: it is a cross-sectional study among 21 patients who were willing and undergoing arthroscopic intervention for grade 2 and 3 meniscal tears following pre-operative MRI evaluation at Govt. Medical College, Thrissur from April 2021 to December 2021.
Results: The vast majority of patients belonged to male gender indicating that males being involved in more physical labour and also in physical contact sports. Among 21 cases, 19(90.47%) were males and 2(9.53%) were females. The most frequent cause of meniscus injury in the study population was due to contact sports (61.9%) like football and kabbadi. Road traffic accidents were associated with other multiple injuries over the body.
Conclusion: MRI is indeed a reliable investigation to determine the meniscal injuries in a patient with knee injury and clinical features suggestive of the same. Most of the patients did present early with the symptoms and that was pointing to how important a normally functioning meniscus is for daily routine of an individual. In the modern era of advanced technology, MRI is the single best investigation to diagnose a meniscal injury.
