Injuries to the Ligaments of the Knee Joint Justus

Pickett, Cpt Adam

doi:10.1097/00003086-196805000-00036

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“…The PCL is also known to contribute to knee stability against varusvalgus rotation and posterolateral tibial rotation [9]. Since disruption of the PCL impairs sporting performance [2,13,15,21], several methods of reconstruction have been described using semitendinosus [9,11,17,20,25,27] and gracilis tendons [12,20,27] alone or in combination, the medial head of the gastrocnemius [14,21,26], the popliteus tendon [1], the patellar tendon [5], the iliotibial band [7,24], the meniscus [6,18] and the semimembranosus tendon [26]. However, these reconstructive procedures for the PCL have not been totally satisfactory.…”

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Reconstruction of the posterior cruciate ligament with LAD-augmented semitendinosus and gracilis tendons: a preliminary report

Fujii

Yamagishi

Sai

et al. 1993

Knee Surg, Sports traumatol, Arthroscopy

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We present our technique for reconstruction of the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) using the semitendinosus and gracilis tendons with the Kennedy ligament augmentation device (LAD). The safe and excellent exposure of the posterior aspect of the knee allowed us to identify the most isometric position in the intercondylar notch of the femur. In addition to this advantage, firm fixation of the LAD-augmented tendons with staples prevented the tibia from sagging posteriorly during early protected motion of the knee. Evaluation of 12 patients followed for more than 2 years showed 9 (75%) good results. In this small series no correlation was found between clinical results and the number of major structures injured, indicating that postoperative care is as important as isometric placement of the PCL in obtaining satisfactory results.

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