Abstract:Objective To systematically evaluate the efficacy of arthroscopic popliteal cyst resection versus traditional open surgery for the treatment of popliteal cyst. It provides a higher evidence-based medical basis for clinicians to choose the surgical method of popliteal cyst resection in the future.Methods Randomized controlled trials and retrospective cohort studies were conducted in which traditional open resection of the popliteal cyst was performed in the control group and arthroscopic resection of the popliteal cyst combined with joint debridement was performed in the observation group. By retrieving the CNKI, WANFANG database, VIP, PubMed, the Cochrane Library, Web of Science nearly a decade of literature, a total of 941 to retrieve relevant literature, eliminate duplicate documents and data to extract the literature, is not set in the control group literature, as well as the poor quality of literature, the participants included 24 references. Selecting operation of efficient and postoperative recurrence rate and complication rate, visual analogue scale (VAS), Lysholm score, intraoperative blood loss, surgical incision length as analysis indicators. Review Manager 5.3 software provided by the Cochrane Collaboration was used for system evaluation and Meta-analysis.Results In a Meta-analysis of 1 559 patients in the 24 included articles, the effective rate (OR^ = 0.24, 95%CI: 0.14 ~ 0.41, P = 0.000) and Lysholm function score (SMD = -2.75, 95%CI = -3.64 ~ -1.85, P = 0.000) in the arthroscopic operation group were higher than those of traditional operation group, the complication rate (OR^ = 4.01, 95%CI: 1.55 ~ 10.40, P = 0.004), VAS score (MD = 1.55, 95%CI: 1.36 ~ 1.75, P = 0.000) and postoperative recurrence rate (OR^ = 6.33, 95%CI: 3.70 ~ 10.84, P = 0.000) were lower than those of traditional operation group, the amount of intraoperative bleeding was less than that of traditional operation group (SMD = 7.67, 95%CI: 5.64 ~ 9.70, P = 0.000), the incision length was shorter than that of traditional operation group (SMD = 6.16, 95%CI: 4.94 ~ 7.37, P = 0.000).Conclusion Compared with traditional open surgery, arthroscopic popliteal cyst resection has the advantages of high efficiency, low postoperative recurrence rate, less complications, less postoperative pain, better knee function score, less intraoperative blood loss and small surgical incision