[Deep vein thrombosis and thromboembolism in arthroscopic surgery].

Unlabelled: Thromboembolic events that occur after routine arthroscopic surgery comprise a complication which may carry lethal consequences. The occurrence of this complication after arthroscopic surgery raises the question as to whether prophylactic anticoagulation should be instituted in these procedures. This review aimed to verify, by a literature search, if routine antithrombotic prophylaxis is justified in arthroscopic surgery.

Anterior knee-pain syndrome.

Anterior knee-pain syndrome would best be defined as a painful condition that arises in or around the patellofemoral joint and is insidious in onset and bilateral, with no macroscopic gross pathology. Anterior knee pain as a descriptive term would define the need to search further for a specific cause of pain, because neither patellar cartilage damage nor malalignment would necessarily be correlated to pain. The examining physician should be aware that specifically in adolescents the higher chance would be that, eventually, no clear-cut pathology would be found; thus, great caution should be taken before diagnosing anterior knee-pain syndrome as existing unilaterally.