J Korean Orthop Assoc.  1975 Jun;10(2):200-206. 10.4055/jkoa.1975.10.2.200.

Hamstring Tendon Transplantation for the Treatment of the Ligamentous Injuries of the Knee

• Lee H
• Lee EW
• Lee CH

• KMID: 2471394
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4055/jkoa.1975.10.2.200

Abstract

With increasing tendency of knee joint injury, there are many attempts to secure stable knee through operative reconstruction of disturbed knee joint stability. Also there are invariable argument on anatomy, physiology and kinetics of normal and abnormal knee Joints. But all the efforts intended to make sure of patients return to there normal life with stables knee joint. Sixty-clight cases of knee joint injuries were treated at the orthopaedic department of Sacred Heart Hospital Choong Ang University during the period from January 1969 to December 1973, mainly by the method of utilizing hamstring muscles in reconstructive procedure. Through this study the following results were obtained. 1. Twenty-two cases of medial collateral ligament injury were treated by Bosworth-Fenton procedure and results were excellent in 16 cases, good in 4 cases, poor in 2 cases 2. Walton's procedure was applied to 4 cases of anteromedial rotatory instability and in two of them, the result was excellent and one was faller in good category. 3. In cases of lateral collateral ligament injury treated by biceps tendon transposition, result were excellent in 2, good in 1, poor in 1, respectively. 4. Three patients of cruciate ligament injury were also treated by semitendinosus muscle transposition with good result.

MeSH Terms

Collateral Ligaments
Heart
Humans
Kinetics
Knee Joint
Knee*
Lateral Ligament, Ankle
Ligaments*
Methods
Muscles
Physiology
Tendons*