Arthroscopic Resection of Symptomatic Tibial Tubercle Ossicles for Recalcitrant Osgood-Schlatter Disease Using a 2-Portal Technique.

ABSTRACT: Arthroscopic resection of symptomatic unfused tibial tubercle ossicles causing chronic anterior knee pain due to recalcitrant Osgood-Schlatter disease has been shown to be a reproducible arthroscopic technique. Although a number of other surgical techniques have been described, including ossicle excision and tubercle-plasty, drilling of the tibial tubercle, bone peg insertion to induce fusion, open excision of loose fragments, direct bursoscopic ossicle resection, and closing-wedge tubercle osteotomy, with varied outcomes, this technique offers a minimally invasive approach with low risk. Complications including injury to the patellar tendon and scarring of the anterior fat pad have been previously reported, but this approach can be performed with minimal fat pad debridement and direct vis

SUBMITTER: McDonough GR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9134260 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature