Regeneración meniscal tras extirpación completa del menisco medial y sustitución por una bandeleta de tendón rotuliano: Estudio experimental con conejos

The authors analyse the meniscal regeneration after complete menis-cectomy and posterior meniscal substitution by a patellar tendon plasty. The study is realized in15 rabbits that were sacrificed after 6 weeks (5 cases), 3 months (5 cases) and 6 months (5 cases). Macroscopic and histologic studies of the pieces obtained have demonstrated that in the adult rabbit meniscal regeneration is always produced after total meniscectomy of the medial meniscus and posterior substitution by patellar tendon plasty, but this meniscal regeneration is smaller than the resected primitive meniscus.