Having had a first appointment with Mr. Mike Risebury, consultant orthopaedic surgeon, on Monday, I’ve just come back from an MRI scan to confirm whether I have a meniscus tear. I have a follow-up with Mr. Risebury in a few days time, but I thought it’d be fun to try to read the MRI scan myself!
And as far as I can tell, a tear is quite clear in these pictures. The arrows I’ve drawn show what I think is fluid (white) leaking into a tear in the mensicus (black).
This is a slice through my left knee, looking from the front:
And this a slice through the same knee, looking from the left:
It’ll be interesting to find out if I’ve read the MRI correctly, and whether we’re then going ahead with an arthoscopic partial meniscectomy.
So looking at the site that you linked to, this looks like a peripheral tear of some sort. Will be interesting to see how much a surgeon can glean from just these two images.
These are just two of 200+ image slices, the ones I thought were clearest, but given that the consultant was 90% certain of the tear just from my history and a single x-ray that just showed the medial meniscus was slightly thinner than the lateral one, I think he’ll be happy with these pictures. And of course, if we go ahead, he’ll have video once he gets in there!
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