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Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

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01-07-2004 | Knee

Calcification of the patellar tendon after ACL reconstruction

A case report with long-term follow-up

Authors: Fahri Erdogan, Onder Aydingoz, Hayrettin Kesmezacar, Rifat Erginer

Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy | Issue 4/2004

Abstract

Extensive calcification of the patellar tendon following ACL reconstruction with central-third bone–patellar tendon–bone autograft is a rarely seen complication. A 45-year-old male patient underwent combined intraarticular reconstruction of ACL with 1/3 central patellar bone–tendon–bone graft and extraarticular reconstruction with modified MacIntosh technique. Two cm of calcification of the patellar tendon was observed incidentally when he underwent a high tibial osteotomy due to medial compartment degeneration, secondary to varus malalignment, 18 months after the ACL surgery. The calcification, being painless, was left untouched during the surgery. At the final examination, 136 months postoperatively, the patient still had no complaint relating to the patellar tendon.

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Title: Calcification of the patellar tendon after ACL reconstruction
A case report with long-term follow-up
Authors: Fahri Erdogan
Onder Aydingoz
Hayrettin Kesmezacar
Rifat Erginer
Publication date: 01-07-2004
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy / Issue 4/2004
Print ISSN: 0942-2056
Electronic ISSN: 1433-7347
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-003-0424-1

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