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Figure 1 – Introduction of suture thread
within needle and placement of loop
inside the knee Figure 2 – First intraarticular loop after
removing the needle
Figure 3 – Second needle passage and
second wire inside the knee Figure 4 – Both wires are visible inside
the joint. The second wire is pulled
through the first loop through the
arthroscopic portal
Figures 5 and 6 – The loop still on the knee is pulled out completely through the
meniscus
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Figure 7 – The suture is positioned and
ready to be tightened externally over the
capsule
Correspondence
Pedro Manuel Serrano – pms1983@gmail.
com
Serviço de Ortopedia e Traumatologia
Hospital de Santo António
 – Lg Prof Abel
Salazar
4099-001 Porto, Portugal
The authors declare no conflicts of inte-
rest related to this work.
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