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July 1, 1993The American Journal of Sports Medicine

Magnetic resonance imaging correlated with clinical findings in 31 of 32 patients, and with arthroscopic findings in all 10 cases evaluated.

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Why the study?

Does magnetic resonance imaging accurately evaluate graft integrity in patients with arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction?

Population

n=32 patients who had arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using a bone-patellar…

Comparison

Magnetic resonance imaging of the knee vs Clinical examination and subsequent arthroscopy

Design

Case_series

Follow-up

10 days to 39 months postoperatively

Authors

RMRobert M. MaywoodBMBrian J. MurphyJUJohn W. Uribe

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Overview

MRI may aid post-ACL graft assessment; leaves open validation in larger prospective studies.

Structured PICO

Does magnetic resonance imaging accurately evaluate graft integrity in patients with arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction?

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Population
n=32 patients who had arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using a bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft
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Intervention
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the knee (T1-weighted, T2-weighted, proton density, and gradient-echo imaging sequences)
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Comparator
Clinical examination and subsequent arthroscopy (in 10 cases)
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Outcome
Correlation of MRI findings (autograft integrity) with clinical examination and arthroscopic findingssurrogate

T2-weighted MRI is a useful diagnostic tool for evaluating graft integrity following patellar tendon ACL reconstruction.

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Maywood et al. (1993) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9231d21b6b183c406c4c83https://doi.org/10.1177/036354659302100408
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