Examples of arthroscopy in the following topics:
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- Arthroscopy is a minimally-invasive surgical procedure used in treating damage to the interior of a joint using a small incision and scope.
- Arthroscopy (also called arthroscopic surgery) is a minimally-invasive surgical procedure in which an examination, and sometimes treatment of damage to the interior of a joint, is performed using an arthroscope, a type of endoscope that is inserted into the joint through a small incision.
- The advantage of arthroscopy over traditional open surgery is that the joint does not have to be opened up fully.
- In knee arthroscopy, for example, only two small incisions are made: one for the arthroscope, permitting observation of the procedure and one for the surgical instruments to be used in the knee cavity.
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- Before the advent of arthroscopy and arthroscopic surgery, patients having surgery for a torn ACL required at least nine months of rehabilitation, having initially spent several weeks in a full-length plaster cast.