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No swollen locking catching knee can bend stairs pain on & off what will happen if complex entire horizontal lateral meniscus tear is left untreated?
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It will get worse: I would expect that the tear will worsen and that your pain and dysfunction in the knee will also worsen. Eventually arthritis will develop.
Answered 7/25/2014
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