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Chronic anteromedial rotatory instability has not been demonstrated to have a satisfactory solution and we have experienced recurrence of the instability after operations. So the authors devised a new operative...
BACKGROUND: During ligament balancing for severe medial contracture in varus knee total knee arthroplasty (TKA), complete distal release of the medial collateral ligament (MCL) or a medial epicondylar osteotomy can...
The posterior cruciate ligament in the stoutest ligamentous structure in the knee joint. Kennedy and Hawkins have confirmed its strenght to be about 2 times that of the anterior cruciate...
In 1938, Palmer pointed out the essential pathological features of acute ligamentous injuries of the knee, and since then many authors have presented the mechanisms of injuries, anatomical details, diagnostic...
BACKGROUND: This study evaluated the preoperative distractive stress radiographs in order to quantify and predict the extent of medial release according to the degree of varus deformity in primary total...
Pellegrini-Stieda's disease is a post-traumatic disorder of the knee. It is characterized by a crescentric-like bony formation in the region of the medial condyle of the femur, which usually makes...
PURPOSE: To evaluate the role of standard axial MR images for the diagnosis of meniscal tears of the knee.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forty-five patients with a prior MRI examination that underwent...