Intercondylar Notch Measurement During Arthroscopy and on Preoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

ABSTRACT: Small intercondylar notch size is associated with increased risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries and increased difficulty of ACL reconstruction. When encountering a small notch during surgery, some surgeons may resort to a notchplasty, which has been shown to have associated morbidity. The ability to predict notch size on preoperative imaging could allow the orthopaedic surgeon to anticipate surgical difficulty such as an oversized graft and graft impingement and possibly avoid a notchplasty. Many methods have been proposed for measuring intercondylar notch size, but they do not correlate with intraoperative measurements or they utilize computed tomography scanning, which is not readily obtained before ACL reconstruction. The purpose of this study was to develop a method of no

SUBMITTER: Vaswani R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7000344 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature