The Relationship between Meniscal Tears and Meniscal Position.

Objective: To investigate how different types of meniscal tears predispose to different patterns of meniscal position in subjects with and without symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA).

Methods: A cross-sectional analysis of 161 women participating in an observational study to evaluate knee OA progression was performed using baseline MRI data. Meniscal morphologic features were scored in three separate locations.