New Horizons in ACL Surgery
Knee Age Sex Side Sport Injury F/U Repair Outcome Ligament 1 19 years M ? Football Triad 10 years Yes Football at 9 months, norm knee at 10 years 2…
Conservative Treatment of ACL Tear
Symptoms of instability following phase 1 and 2 of PT Concomitant meniscus tear or chondral lesion(s) Persistent flexion contracture secondary to cyclops lesion Young athlete returning to a competitive pivoting…
Pediatric and Adolescent ACL Injury and Sports Medicine: The Early Years
Fig. 1.1 Non-transphyseal ACL reconstruction with (a) patellar tendon or (b) semitendinosus/gracilis autograft Fig. 1.2 Partial transphyseal ACL reconstruction with a tibial tunnel and central patellar or hamstring autografts with…
Treatment of Concomitant Pathology During ACL Reconstruction
Fig. 17.1 Sagittal view of a knee T2 weighted MRI image depicts a concomitant posterior horn lateral meniscus tear (red arrow) in a pediatric patient with a combined ACL/MCL injury….
Partial ACL Injuries in Pediatric and Adolescent Athletes
Fig. 9.1 Reprint of “Figure 1: Role of AM and PL bundles during knee flexion” from B. Sonnery-Cottet, P. Colombet. Partial tears of the anterior cruciate ligament. Orthopaedics & Traumatology:…
Assessment of Skeletal Maturity
Fig. 5.1 Left hand and wrist bone age of a 12-year-old female athlete who has had menstrual periods for 15 months demonstrating an advanced skeletal age of 13 Tanner and…
Surgical Considerations and Treatment Algorithm for ACL Tear
Fig. 10.1 Proposed conservative treatment algorithm for anterior cruciate ligament injury in skeletally immature individuals (Adapted from Management of anterior cruciate ligament injuries in skeletally immature individuals. J Orthop Sports…
Transphyseal ACL Reconstruction in Skeletally Immature Patients
Fig. 16.1 Dimeglio growth remaining charts for boys (a) and girls (b). Authors preferred ACL reconstruction technique (c) is based on these growth remaining charts Patients with less than 1…
Femoral Avulsion Fracture of ACL
Reference Age (years) Gender Mechanism Diagnosis Other injuries, comments Treatment Follow-up Robinson and Driscoll [2] 13 M Motorbike Notch X-ray Tibial avulsion Fx, MCL tear ORIF, sutures 12 m Eady…
History of Ligament Injuries in Children
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018Shital N. Parikh (ed.)The Pediatric Anterior Cruciate Ligamenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64771-5_2 2. History of Ligament Injuries in Children Shital N. Parikh1 (1) Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA Shital N. Parikh Email:…
