For knee, I'd say the top tier is American Journal of Sports Medicine or Arthrocopy for sports stuff and CORR and Journal of Arthroplasty for arthroplasty. As yours doesn't really fit those types, I think it would depend on how it presented and how it was treated whether you'd go the sports or recon route. I know from my own unfortunate rejections from those journals though that case reports are tough to get in. So there are always Orthopaedics or American Journal of Orthopaedics...at least it will be published and referenced. Next in line for subspecialty journals would probably be Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology and Arthroscopy, or Knee, both of which are British journals I believe. I'd say those are the tiers of the top subspecialty journals, the next tier generalist journals, or the second tier subspecialty journals for a knee topic. Just my opinion...would like to hear others if you disagree, as I'm wondering the same things about a case report I'm trying to get in.
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