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Article: Debate on the use of arthroscopic surgery for osteoarthritis of the knee.(Clinical report)
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- Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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A recent article published in the New England Journal of Medicine by J. B. Moseley, an orthopaedic surgeon, and others, was entitled "A controlled trial of arthroscopic surgery for osteoarthritis of the knee" (1). The patients that they studied were all from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston. They recruited some 180 patients with osteoarthritis of the knee who agreed to be randomized into 1 of 3 groups: a) normal treatment, consisting of lavage and debridement, b) lavage (or saline irrigation) only, and c) a sham operation only, i.e., a nick in the skin but no arthroscopic procedure. Their results suggested that all 3 groups were improved slightly. However, ...