Knee The knee is the joint in which arthroscopy has its greatest diagnostic and intraarticular surgical application. The usefulness of arthroscopic techniques in diagnosis and treatment of intraarticular pathology has been well documented. Arthroscopy should be considered a diagnostic aid…
Transepiphyseal replacement of anterior cruciate ligament using quadruple hamstring grafts The transepiphyseal reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament using quadruple hamstring grafts procedure described by Anderson is indicated in patients in Tanner stage III of development. The procedure is not…
Most anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructions are currently done arthroscopically because of the advantages of smaller skin and capsular incisions, less extensor mechanism trauma, improved viewing of the intercondylar notch for placement of the tunnel and attachment sites, less postoperative…