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Laxity-Based Return to Play
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears are very common injuries among professional football players, and if not managed properly, they can lead to further intra-articular lesions and premature osteoarthritis, ...
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Eminentia Fractures
The surgical treatment for fractures of eminentia intercondylaris of the tibia is a controversial topic. Multiple techniques using different approaches, arthroscopic portals, and fixation methods have been des...
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Surgical Timing in Combined Ligamentous Injuries
Although rare, multiligament knee injuries (MLKIs) are associated with high morbidity and are challenging to treat. In the acute setting, the surgeon must be vigilant for neurovascular lesion that is often ass...
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Common Scales and Checklists in Sports Medicine Research
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are key tools when performing clinical research, but they must possess particular properties before they are used; moreover during the early stage of study design, att...
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Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with an all-epiphyseal “over-the-top” technique is safe and shows low rate of failure in skeletally immature athletes
The aim of this study was to follow up, clinically and radiographically, skeletally immature patients who underwent ACL reconstruction with an all-epiphyseal “over-the-top” technique.
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Open AccessThe biomechanical role of meniscal allograft transplantation and preliminary in-vivo kinematic evaluation
Meniscus allograft transplantation (MAT) is a surgical procedure performed in patients complaining post-meniscectomy syndrome. Although the effectiveness of MAT on knee stability has been already demonstrated ...
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Triaxial accelerometer can quantify the Lachman test similarly to standard arthrometers
To assess the relationship between the KiRA triaxial accelerometer and the KT-1000 measurements in the intact, anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) deficient, and ACL reconstructed knee joint for the quantificatio...
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Anatomic Instability Factors: Principals and Secondary for Patellar Instability
Patellofemoral instability represents a severe problem in young and active patients [1, 2]. Recurrent instability episodes often cause injury to structures within the patellofemoral joint, including soft tissu...
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The Italian cross-cultural adaptations of the paediatric International Knee Documentation Committee Score and the Hospital for Special Surgery Paediatric Functional Activity Brief Scale are reliable instruments in paediatric population
The aim of the present study was to translate, cross-culturally adapt, and assess the psychometric properties of the Pedi-IKDC and Pedi-FABS scores in the Italian paediatric population with various knee pathol...
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Meniscus Biomechanics
Meniscal tears are common injuries in sports and their surgical treatment is one of the most performed procedures in orthopaedic surgery. The comprehension of the normal and pathological biomechanics of menisc...
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Hamstring grafts for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction show better magnetic resonance features when tibial insertion is preserved
Comparing the MRI features of the grafts between a group of patients treated with an over-the-top anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction technique that preserves the hamstring attachment and a control group...
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Good results are reported at 60-month follow-up after medial patello-femoral ligament reconstruction with fascia lata allograft for recurrent patellar dislocation
The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a new minimally invasive surgical technique for the reconstruction of the medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL) with fascia lata allograft at 60-month mini...
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Higher risk of contralateral anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury within 2 years after ACL reconstruction in under-18-year-old patients with steep tibial plateau slope
To assess the role of Tibial Plateau Slope (TPS) as risk factor for early Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstruction failure and contralateral ACL injury in a population of patients with less than 18 year...
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Open AccessSatisfactory clinical results and low failure rate of medial collagen meniscus implant (CMI) at a minimum 20 years of follow-up
The aim of the study was to evaluate the long-term clinical results, reoperations, surgical failure and complications at a minimum of 20 year of follow-up of the first 8 medial CMI scaffolds implanted by a sin...
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Open AccessKnee position at the moment of bone bruise could reflect the late phase of non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injury rather than the mechanisms leading to ligament failure
The aim of the present study was to trace knee position at the time of bone bruise (BB) and investigate how much this position departed from the knee biomechanics of an in vivo flexion–extension.
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Side-to-side anterior tibial translation on monopodal weightbearing radiographs as a sign of knee decompensation in ACL-deficient knees
To evaluate the influence of time from injury and meniscus tears on the side-to-side difference in anterior tibial translation (SSD-ATT) as measured on lateral monopodal weightbearing radiographs in both prima...
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Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with lateral plasty restores anterior–posterior laxity in the case of concurrent partial medial meniscectomy
To evaluate the in vivo knee laxity in the presence of a partial medial meniscectomy before and after a single-bundle ACL reconstruction with a lateral plasty (SBLP) and to compare it with the knee laxity afte...
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Clinical outcomes, healing rate, and presence of peri-meniscal cysts after all-inside meniscal repair in combination with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a prospective comparative study with magnetic resonance imaging assessment
Meniscal repairs are the most common associated procedures during ACL reconstruction, but they present challenging indications and possible risks of complications or failures. The aim of the present study is t...
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High recall bias in retrospective assessment of the pediatric International Knee Documentation Committee Questionnaire (Pedi-IKDC) in children with knee pathologies
The increasing incidence of knee injuries among children is well known by sports physicians. Papers dealing with this topic have often collected patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) in a retrospective ma...
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Open AccessReduplicated medial parapatellar plica: a case of a medial plica anatomical variation recalcitrant to conservative treatment
The current study aims to report the radiologic and clinical appearance of a rare anatomical variation of the knee medial synovial plica along with its response to conservative and surgical treatment.
