Why the study?
Does anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using a MacIntosh type repair without drilling through epiphyseal plates improve symptoms and allow return to sports in adolescents with open physes?
Population
5 preepiphyseal closure adolescents with mid-substance anterior cruciate rupture and symptomatic episodes of…
Design
Case_series
Follow-up
mean 4.4 years
Authors
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May support physeal-sparing ACL repair in adolescents; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
Does anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using a MacIntosh type repair without drilling through epiphyseal plates improve symptoms and allow return to sports in adolescents with open physes?
ACL reconstruction using an iliotibial band strip over the lateral femoral condyle without drilling through epiphyseal plates provides satisfactory symptomatic relief and return to sports in adolescents with open physes.
Nakhostine et al. (1995) studied this question.
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