Posterior Knee Arthroscopy

Knee arthroscopy is performed increasingly every day and constitutes an important place among the orthopedic surgical procedures. Significant improvement has been achieved in evaluating the compartments and treatment procedures with the increase in technical possibilities. However, posterior compartment of the knee, which is referred to as the “blind area,” and treatments that will be applied to this area are not possible to be evaluated with standard anterior knee arthroscopy. Particularly, examination of the areas that are considered as the site of arthrosis onset in the knee joint such as posterior femoral condyle as well as the posterior roots of the meniscus and posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) is only possible with techniques such as posterior knee arthroscopy. In this chapter, we mention technical information and fields of application concerning posterior knee arthroscopy.