Strategies to improve anterior cruciate ligament healing and graft placement. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Recent improvements in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction have been notable for strategies to improve ACL healing and to improve graft placements. The controversial choice of 1-bundle or 2-bundle grafts requires an advanced knowledge of native ACL insertional anatomy and an appreciation for the kinematic effects of graft placements. Understanding the limitations of surgical techniques to place tunnels is important. Once grafts are placed, new biologic strategies to promote intra-articular and intraosseous healing are evolving. Although these biologic engineering strategies are currently experimental, they are projected for clinical application in the near future.

publication date

  • January 1, 2008

Research

keywords

  • Anterior Cruciate Ligament
  • Orthopedic Procedures
  • Transplants
  • Wound Healing

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 38349104826

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1177/0363546507311690

PubMed ID

  • 18166680

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 36

issue

  • 1