Differentiating expected pediatric knee MRI post-operative changes and meniscal retear after primary repair or debridement may be challenging. This pictorial essay reviews treatment strategies for meniscal tears with or without underlying discoid morphology. MRI pearls and pitfalls to identify meniscal retears and differentiate them from normal post-treatment findings will be shown, geared toward pediatric musculoskeletal radiologists.

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