All-Inside Partial Epiphyseal Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Plus an Associated Modified Lemaire Procedure Sutured to the Femoral Button.

ABSTRACT: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears in skeletally immature patients are on the rise; pediatric athletes are now in constant year-round sports participation. Nonoperative treatment may lead to poor functional outcomes and an increase in associated intra-articular lesions and sometimes can cause drop-out from sports activity. The treatment of these injuries is not at all clear, and appropriate guidelines do not exist. Physeal-sparing and partial physeal-sparing techniques have been described. Concerns about restoring normal knee kinematics with the previously described ACL reconstruction (ACLR) techniques are open to debate. We describe a partial epiphyseal ACLR to be done in skeletally immature patients involved in highly demanding sport activities. This technique is performed with an ex

SUBMITTER: Leyes-Vence M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6551511 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature