The acute anterior cruciate ligament iajury is most common major knee injuries of athietics and usually associated with other hgament injury. The treatment of acute ACL injury is controversial but arthroscopic ACL repair has advantages such as few com...
The acute anterior cruciate ligament iajury is most common major knee injuries of athietics and usually associated with other hgament injury. The treatment of acute ACL injury is controversial but arthroscopic ACL repair has advantages such as few complication, minimal trauma, preservation of tbe synovial sheath and periligamentous blood supply. The open repair of acute rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament have been used widely but the arthroscopic repair and augumentation is a relatively new method. The purpose of this paper is to describe the surgical technique of arthroscopic augumented repair for acute ACL injury and preliminary result of its operation. Aurhors have performed arthroscopic repair and augumentation with semiten-dinosus tendoa in 8 acute ACL iqjuries from Jury 1991 to June 1992 and confirmed that the result waa very aatisfactory with average 8 months follow up.