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Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy 3/2015

01-03-2015 | Editorial

Anatomic ACL reconstruction: The final answer?

Author: William G. Clancy

Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy | Issue 3/2015

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In the dark ages of knee instability, (1950–1970s), the majority of orthopedists thought that these were due to either medial or lateral rotatory instability and not due to injury to the anterior cruciate ligament injury and numerous procedures were developed to stabilize the knee. O’Donoghue [23], however, believed that the real culprit was a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Feagin and similarly Marshall later also came to the same conclusion and advocated direct repair of the ACL in acute cases [10, 19]. Our experience at the Naval Academy (1972–1974) with these various chronic reconstructive procedures as well as primary repair yielded very poor results.
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Metadata
Title
Anatomic ACL reconstruction: The final answer?
Author
William G. Clancy
Publication date
01-03-2015
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy / Issue 3/2015
Print ISSN: 0942-2056
Electronic ISSN: 1433-7347
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-014-3323-8

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