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Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® 3/2013

01-03-2013 | Reply to Letter to the Editor

Reply to Letter to the Editor: The ACL in the Arthritic Knee: How Often is it Present and Can Preoperative Tests Predict its Presence?

Authors: Michael A. Mont, MD, Aaron J. Johnson, MD, Stephen M. Howell, MD

Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Issue 3/2013

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On behalf of my coauthors, I thank Nynke Swart and Anne van den Dorpel for their comments regarding our study [1]. We have read their comments carefully and agree they raise valid questions. In reference to the first question of potential investigator bias: the MRI evaluators, who were fellowship-trained musculoskeletal radiologists, were blinded to the results of the intraoperative Lachman tests. Thus, we do not believe that this contributed to any bias in our study. …
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Johnson AJ, Howell SM, Costa CR, Mont MA. The ACL in the arthritic knee: how often is it present and can preoperative tests predict its presence? Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2012 Aug 3. [Epub ahead of print]
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Noda M, Kurosaka M, Yoshiya S, Onga T, Mizuno K. Voluntarily evoked positive Lachman test produced by gastrocnemius muscle contraction: a report of three cases. Am J Sports Med. 2000;28:893–896.PubMed
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Wu C, Bach BR, Johnson JC. Arthrometric comparisons of ACL deficiency examined while awake and while under anesthesia. Am J Knee Surg. 1992;5:9–15.
Metadata
Title
Reply to Letter to the Editor: The ACL in the Arthritic Knee: How Often is it Present and Can Preoperative Tests Predict its Presence?
Authors
Michael A. Mont, MD
Aaron J. Johnson, MD
Stephen M. Howell, MD
Publication date
01-03-2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Issue 3/2013
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Electronic ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-012-2679-7

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