NEW ORLEANS — Results presented here showed quadriceps tendon grafts had no significant differences in revision or reoperation rates after ACL reconstruction compared with bone-patellar tendon ...

At 7 months after ACL reconstruction, patients with quadriceps tendon grafts show significantly worse isokinetic quadriceps strength than patients with hamstring tendon and patellar tendon grafts.

Without the rush to get an athlete ready to return to play in six months, there has been a shift in the grafts surgeons use. “They used to use the patellar ligament graft for the bone-tendon-bone ...

Smith & Nephew SNN recently launched the UltraTRAC QUAD ACL Reconstruction Technique, which consists of the new QUADTRAC Quadriceps Tendon Harvest Guide System, X-WING Graft Preparation System and ...

Osaka Metropolitan University scientists revealed quadriceps tendon-patellar bone (QTB) grafts as a more suitable option than bone-patellar tendon-bone (BPTB) grafts for anterior cruciate ligament ...

Quadriceps tendon (less common)   ... With the ACL graft in position, the graft must be solidly fixed in its new home. One common way to do this is to use a screw to hold the graft end ...

More information: Takuya Kinoshita et al, ACL Graft Matching: Cadaveric Comparison of Microscopic Anatomy of Quadriceps and Patellar Tendon Grafts and the Femoral ACL Insertion Site, The American ...

The quadriceps tendon has been gaining popularity for use as a graft option for ACL reconstruction due to the advantages it offers. 1-4 It is estimated that the number of US ACL procedures will ...

As people everywhere embrace more active lifestyles, anterior cruciate ligaments (ACL) injuries have continued to increase. In the United States alone, there are between 100,000 and 200,000 ACL ...

Significance. The quadriceps tendon has been gaining popularity as a graft option for ACL reconstruction due to the advantages it offers. Per Smith & Nephew’s reference, the number of U.S. ACL ...