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Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Using Quadriceps Tendon Autograft for Adolescents with Open Physes- a Technical Note by Mauch, Christian ;Arnold, Markus P ;Wirries, André ;Mayer, Ralph R ;Friederich, Niklaus F ;Hirschmann, Michael T is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background One major concern in the treatment of ACL lesions in children and adolescents with open physes is the risk of iatrogenic damage to the physes and a possibly resulting growth disturbance. ## Purpose The primary purpose of this article is to describe our technique of a transphyseal ACL reconstruction using quadriceps tendon-bone autograft in children and adolescents with open growth plates. The secondary aim is to report our early results in terms of postoperative growth disturbances which are considered to be a major concern in this challenging group of patients. It was our hypothesis that with our proposed technique no significant growth disturbances would occur. ## Methods From January 1997 to December 2007 49 consecutive children and adolescents with open growth plates were treated for a torn ACL using the aforementioned surgical technique. The patients (28 males and 21 females) with a median age at surgery of 13 (range 8-15) years were retrospectively evaluated. Outcome measures were follow-up radiographs (weight-bearing long leg radiographs of the injured and uninjured knee, anteroposterior and lateral views, a tangential view of the patella and a tunnel view of t
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- Author
- Mauch, Christian ;Arnold, Markus P ;Wirries, André ;Mayer, Ralph R ;Friederich, Niklaus F ;Hirschmann, Michael T
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); [London]: BioMed Central; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1758-2555)
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)