Mild to moderate preoperative patellar tendinopathy may not significantly affect postoperative outcomes of ACL ...

Traditional bone-patellar tendon-bone and hamstring tendon ACL grafts are not without limitations. A growing body of anatomic, biomechanical and clinical data has demonstrated the utility of ...

Today, the two mainstay choices are hamstring–tendon and bone–patellar tendon–bone autografts ... outcomes more than 2 years postoperatively between these two popular graft choices.2 Similarly, ...

ACL surgery involves reconstructing an injured anterior cruciate ligament using a tendon graft that comes ... the center of the knee joint and needs to be attached to the bone above and below ...

Although there is general consensus that surgical reconstruction has advantages over nonoperative treatment, surgical failure in skeletally immature children has resulted in a number of unanswered ...