Diagnostics and surgical treatment of ruptured Baker's cysts: A prospective study.

Aims: We assessed diagnostic and arthroscopic surgery challenges the ruptured Baker's cysts (RBC) cases may present compared to intact Baker's cyst cases (IBC). The main question to explore was: Is RBC arthroscopic surgery more complex than IBS surgery? The null hypothesis was that RBC cases might present additional, and specific challenges for a surgeon and the arthroscopic procedure may be more complicated.

Methods: The prospective cohort study analyzed 100 operated patients (43 % female; mean age 61 ± 9.