Comparing 10-Year Follow-up Outcomes Among Patients Without Unstable Chondral Lesions Versus Those With Unstable Chondral Lesions (Left In Situ) at the Time of Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy

The authors compared outcomes at nearly 10 years in patients with and without unstable CLs who underwent APM and found a significantly higher rate of subsequent arthroplasty in those with unstable CLs (21.9% vs 2.0%). Patients who avoided arthroplasty had equivalent PROMs and minimal progressive joint space narrowing on weightbearing radiographs.