• CASE
    • Bucket-handle meniscus tears (BHMTs) typically involve the medial meniscus and often occur with concomitant rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament. We report an unusual case of a polytrauma patient who sustained a bicruciate multiligament knee injury (MLKI) with a posteriorly displaced lateral BHMT that spontaneously healed after reduction of the fragment. At the 2-year follow-up, the lateral meniscus was clinically stable without pain.
  • CONCLUSION
    • A lateral BHMT with a posteriorly displaced fragment produced an atypical magnetic resonance imaging presentation in a bicruciate MLKI. Meniscal repair was aborted because of extravasation and concerns of compartment syndrome, but spontaneous healing occurred after fragment reduction.