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While ramp lesion diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes are well studied in adults, literature in pediatric populations is scarce despite increasing ACL tear rates and different injury patterns.
This review highlights the anatomic and technical considerations for diagnosing and treating ramp lesions in pediatric patients with ACL tears.
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Alerts clinicians to ramp lesions in pediatric ACL tears; extends anatomic literature but leaves open prospective validation of techniques.
Meniscocapsular separations of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus, also known as ramp lesions, are common injuries associated with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears. Though there is ample literature on ramp lesion diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes in adult populations, there is scarce work in pediatric populations where increasing ACL tear rates and different injury patterns make more studies and discussion on this topic paramount. We therefore review here the available literature on ramp lesions as it relates to pediatric populations as well as anatomic and technical considerations that should be considered in this group of patients.
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Bram et al. (2020) conducted a review in Pediatric Ramp Lesions. Ramp lesion diagnosis and repair was evaluated.
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