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The role played by anatomical factors in ACL injury remains elusive. In this study, objective methods were used to characterize ACL volume, tibial slopes and notch geometry from ACL-injured and matched-control subjects. The study tested four hypotheses: (1) the medial tibial plateau slope is steeper posteriorly in the injured group compared to the non-injured group, (2) the lateral tibial plateau slope is steeper posteriorly in the injured group compared to the non-injured group, (3) the femoral intercondylar notch dimensions are smaller in the injured group compared to the non-injured group and (4) the ACL volume, tibial plateau slopes and intercondylar notch dimensions are all independent of each other. Fifty-four subjects were divided into two groups, those who had suffered a non-contact ACL injury and those who still had two healthy ACLs, matched to the injured subjects by gender, age, height and weight. The lateral tibial plateaus in the uninjured contralateral knees of the injured subjects had a significantly steeper posterior slope (1.8 degrees vs. -0.3 degrees ), a factor that potentially contributed to the ACL injury in the opposite knee. The intercondylar notch dimensions

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Author

R.A. Simon; J.S. Everhart; H.N. Nagaraja; A.M. Chaudhari

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0021-9290)

Published

2010

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)