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Athymic Rat Model for Evaluation of Engineered Anterior Cruciate Ligament Grafts
Published on: March 26, 2015
Combined anterior cruciate and lateral collateral ligaments reconstruction with ipsilateral hamstring autograft:
Sérgio Rocha Piedade1, Carlos Górios2, Filippo Migliorini3
1Exercise and Sports Medicine, Department of Orthopaedic, Rheumatology, and Traumatology, University of Campinas UNICAMP, School of Medical Sciences, Campinas, Brazil.
Abstract:
Different surgical techniques have been proposed to reconstruct combined anterior cruciate (ACL) and lateral collateral ligaments (LCL). Although these surgical techniques are reliable and reproducible, the number of autologous grafts needed for the reconstruction could be a limiting factor, especially when patients present with multi-ligament knee injuries and the posterior cruciate ligament is also torn. In addition, some of these techniques are not easy to master and have a steep learning curve. We present a surgical procedure that has been used over the last 18 years to reconstruct combined ACL and LCL injuries and has become a reproducible, feasible and time-efficient procedure to approach combined ACL and LCL injuries using an ipsilateral hamstring autograft.
