The prospective, blinded, multicenter trial included 110 consecutive patients aged 18–75 years who presented with knee pain between April 2012 and April 2013. Each patient underwent a physical examination, MRI, in-office diagnostic imaging, and a diagnostic arthroscopic examination in the operating room. Two blinded, unaffiliated experts reviewed the in-office arthroscopic images and MRI images using the surgical diagnostic arthroscopy images as the “control” group. The accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of in-office arthroscopy was equivalent to surgical diagnostic arthroscopy and more accurate than MRI. There were no patient- or device-related complications with in-office arthroscopy. Read the abstract...
