Arthroscopy

      

          The arthroscopy is an endoscopy type. It consists on the visualization of an articulation, like it can be the knee knee, with the purpose of observing the meniscus and the rest of their internal anatomy this is achieved with the use of an arthroscopy, a similar instrument to the endoscopy, of smaller longitude, and adapted in certain way to be more usable in an articulation.

         Two arthroscopy. forms exist: the therapy and it diagnoses it. The arthroscopy. is known from 1932, when a Japanese, Kenji Takagi, inspired by an instrument to see the vesicle, developed the first arthroscopy. However a lot of time would pass until the popularization of its invention. But the true boom happened in the decade of the 90, with the appearance of more and more small cameras, and of the optic fiber.

        Another important advance of final of the century twenty were the appearance of the radiofrecuency, an instrumental one special that carries out precise courts. The arthroscopy is a technical surgery invented in Japan and taken Europe for the Dr. Henri Dorfmann. The arthroscopy allows to see the articulation, to make extirpations or to carry out small surgeries.

        It is often practiced under  regional, locorregional it anesthetizes or general, since to carry out an arthroscopy it is necessary to make an or two small incisions. One is good to introduce the arthroscopy.  And the other one for the instruments, to aspire or to illuminate the articulation. The arthroscopy consists on introducing in an articulation a small rigid tube, the arthroscopy connected to a camera that will allow the surgeon to visualize the region intraarticular in a monitor.

       The surgeon makes other incisions to introduce the mini-instruments that will use: pincers, scissors, strawberries. Among the average operations, you can cut the meniscus or to retire it, to reinforce injured ligaments, to reorganize the damaged cartilage or to eliminate a strange body. The intervention is quick and the patient recovers quickly after twenty-four hours of immobilization.

       The arthroscopy can be equipped with different tools, in such a way that without necessity of an operation invasive they can be carried out corrections in the articulation.

       In the therapy, the arthroscopy is implemented with instruments and the purpose of the intervention is to make to heal or to treat an articulation. In the diagnostic the arthroscopy is not equipped with more than the basic camera, and the purpose of the intervention is to make a diagnosis, to revise the area or to observe the area for future operations of the type invasive.