Os autores estudaram em joelhos de 11 cadáveres a presença do ligamento femoropatelar medial.Em 6 joelhos o estudo foi anatômico por dissecção e secção seriada das peças anatômicas.Em 5 joelhos o estudo foi artroscópico pela visibilização nos joelhos do ligamento encontrado nos seis joelhos estudados anatomicamente. Em todas as peças anatômicas foi possível a dissecção da estrutura ligamentar descrita como o ligamento femoropatelar medial e nos cinco joelhos estudados sob visão artroscópica a visibilização e identificação do ligamento foi evidente.
SUMMARYThe authors evaluated the evolution of seventeen patients with acute patellofemoral dislocation. Patients were treated through medial patellar ligament suture. The suture of the ligament was performed by arthroscopy in nine patients with ligament lesion near to the patella. The other eight patients, with patellofemoral ligament lesion occurring near to the femoral epicondyle, were treated by reinsertion at the femoral epicondyle with anchors. The patients had a mean follow-up period of forty months and there was no femoropatellar dislocation recurrence.
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