Open Access

Table 4

Summary of the results of the most important published studies.

Author Year Number of patients Sensitivity Specificity Main results
Gürsoy et al. [7] 2019 96 93.5% (MM), 88.8% (MM), MRI accuracy is higher for medial meniscus than lateral meniscus and ACL injuries.
64.8% (LM), 94.9% (LM),
55.5% (ACL) 81.6% (ACL)
Nam et al. [8] 2014 50 88% 92% MRI accuracy decreases in patients with ACL injuries, with lower sensitivity.
Phelan et al. [9] 2016 75 90% 85% MRI is accurate for meniscal tears but less reliable for combined ACL injuries.
LaPrade et al. [10] 2015 100 95% 89% High diagnostic value of MRI for meniscus root tears.
Van Dyck et al. [11] 2007 120 60% 80% MRI shows low sensitivity for subtle meniscal injuries.
Kim et al. [12] 2021 60 67% 65% MRI has limited diagnostic value for meniscus tear location.

Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.

Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.

Initial download of the metrics may take a while.