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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Surgical Technique: Revision ACL Reconstruction With a Rectangular Tunnel Technique.

We developed the rectangular tunnel ACL reconstruction (RT ACLR) using a 10-mm wide bone-patellar tendon-bone (BTB) graft through rectangular tunnels with a rectangular aperture to reduce tunnel size: the cross-sectional area of the tunnels of 50 mm(2) (5 × 10 mm) in RT ACLR is less than that of 79 mm(2) in a conventional 10-mm round tunnel technique presuming the technique would be more suitable in revision ACLR with previous improperly placed tunnels. Shino K, Mae T, Nakamura N. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2011 Jun 28. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21710294

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