The relationship of intercondylar notch size and content to notchplasty requirement in anterior cruciate ligament surgery

Tänzer, Michael; Lenczner, Eric

doi:10.1016/0749-8063(90)90004-w

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“…7 Both direct and indirect traumas may cause ACL injury, the best known predisposing factor being stenosis of the intercondylar notch. 7 Other predisposing factors are sex, generalized ligament laxity and previous knee injuries. 8,9 Treatment of ACL injury is important because degenerative changes of the knees have been observed in untreated ACL injuries after a mean of 7 years.…”

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Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction by using Otogeneous Hamstring Tendons with Home-based Rehabilitation

Uğutmen¹,

Özkan²,

Kılınçoğlu

et al. 2008

J Int Med Res

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We investigated patients undergoing arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction using otogenous hamstring tendons with a cross-pin technique to compare a post-operative home-based rehabilitation programme with a clinic-based programme. ACL reconstruction was performed on 104 patients (103 male) by the same surgeon. The mean age of the patients was 31.5 years (range 18 - 43 years) and the mean time interval between injury and operation was 34.3 months. Patients were randomly allocated to either a home-based (n = 52) or clinic-based rehabilitation programme (n = 52). Mean follow-up was 31.1 months (range 12 - 66 months). Patients underwent a series of examinations before and after surgery in order to evaluate functional recovery of their injured knee. The results demonstrated that using otogeneous hamstring tendons for ACL reconstruction was safe and produced satisfactory results. The study also demonstrated that a home-based rehabilitation programme was as effective as a clinic-based programme.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction by using Otogeneous Hamstring Tendons with Home-based Rehabilitation

Uğutmen¹,

Özkan²,

Kılınçoğlu

et al. 2008

J Int Med Res

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“…This failure may be because of either failure 9,24-26 of initiation of the anchorage process or an arrest of incorporation before adequate bonding of the graft bone construct has occurred, with the resulting persistent movement at the bone tunnel aperture and a return of subjective instability. 8,[23][24][25] Biology of graft healing Biology of integration. Based upon histological study, the ACL graft is seen to undergo four phases of integration.…”

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The biology of integration of the anterior cruciate ligament

Deehan

Cawston

2005

The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume

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“…The femoral intercondylar notch impingement on ACL substitutes has been a subject of some investigation [33], and intercondylar notch enlargement with ACL reconstruction is recommended by most authors. A more differentiated view of the importance of the intercondylar roof and its outlets has been suggested lately, and notchplasty is recommended only for selected cases [8,44]. The extent of this notch enlargement, if performed, varies.…”

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The immediate postoperative kinematic state after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with increasing peroperative tension

Andersen

Jørgensen

1998

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

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The last steps in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction are tensioning and fixation of the ligament. However, how much tension should be applied to the ligament in general or in each individual and in which position the ligament should be fixed remain unanswered questions. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of increasing ligament tension on the immediate postoperative kinematic state of the ACL-reconstructed knee. Nine cadaver knees were mounted in a mechanical measuring device based on a redesign of the Genucom knee testing system, so that the femur was fixed to a force plate and the moving tibia to a goniometer arm for registration of movement. The ligament was attached on the tibial side to a Kistler load cell and a turn-buckle for adjustment of ligament tension. The ligament was tensioned at 30 degrees of flexion with 5, 33, 66, 99 and 132 N. The cadaver knees were tested with an intact ACL, after sacrifice of the ACL and after reconstruction of the ACL with an ABC ligament. Results showed that there was a significant decrease in knee motion when the tension was higher than 33 N. This resulted in an overconstrained knee with less anteroposterior translation, internal-external rotation and varus-valgus movement compared with the uninjured knee.

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The relationship of intercondylar notch size and content to notchplasty requirement in anterior cruciate ligament surgery

Cited by 86 publications

References 5 publications

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction by using Otogeneous Hamstring Tendons with Home-based Rehabilitation

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction by using Otogeneous Hamstring Tendons with Home-based Rehabilitation

The biology of integration of the anterior cruciate ligament

The immediate postoperative kinematic state after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with increasing peroperative tension

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