Abstract

KNEE TRAUMA IN KSA: AN OVERVIEW

Abdulnasser Mohammad Alghamdi, AbdulRahman Ali Mohammed Alzahrani, Fahad Abdullah Alzahrani

Abstract

The development of health service in KSA has lead to early consideration of knee injury of the Saudi athletes (Sadat-Ali and Sankaran-Kutty, 1985). Recent studies have shown that the incidence of knee injury in KSA is closely similar to the international incidence (Drust et al., 2013). Knee injury cases are presented to the Emergency Department (EM) with joint pain with, 34.6% and without swelling 65.4% (Mustafa Z. et al., 2013). The clinical data is supported by Magda et al., 2015. King Saud Medical City conducted an admirable research work proving the significance of MRI in diagnosis of knee lesions and in modifying the surgical decision (Mustafa Z. et al.,

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