Clinical and radiological outcomes of anteromedial portal versus transtibial technique in ACL reconstruction: a systematic review

M Loucas, R Loucas, R D'Ambrosi… - … Journal of Sports …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The drilling technique used to make a femoral tunnel is critically important for
determining outcomes after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. The 2 most …

Transtibial versus independent femoral tunnel drilling techniques for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: evaluation of femoral aperture positioning

HK Haroun, MM Abouelsoud, MR Allam… - Journal of Orthopaedic …, 2022 - Springer
Background Femoral tunnel can be drilled through tibial tunnel (TT), or independent of it (TI)
by out-in (OI) technique or by anteromedial (AM) technique. No consensus has been …

High non-anatomic tunnel position rates in ACL reconstruction failure using both transtibial and anteromedial tunnel drilling techniques

V Jaecker, T Zapf, JH Naendrup, T Pfeiffer… - Archives of orthopaedic …, 2017 - Springer
Introduction Although it is well known from cadaveric and biomechanical studies that
transtibial femoral tunnel (TT) positioning techniques are associated with non-anatomic …

Race and gender differences in anterior cruciate ligament femoral footprint location and orientation: a 3D‐MRI study

L Zhang, T Huang, C Li, X Xing, D Zou… - Orthopaedic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The femoral tunnel position is crucial to anatomic single‐bundle anterior cruciate
ligament (ACL) reconstruction, but the ideal femoral footprint position are mostly based on …

Effects of modified trans-tibial versus trans-portal technique on stress patterns around the femoral tunnel in anatomical single-bundle ACL reconstruction with different …

HS Moon, SY Song, JU Oh, YJ Seo - BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2022 - Springer
Background It is unclear whether different anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) graft trajectories
in the distal femur would have different effects on stress generated within the distal femur …

High incidence of partially anatomic tunnel placement in primary single-bundle ACL reconstruction

A Achtnich, F Ranuccio, L Willinger… - Knee Surgery, Sports …, 2018 - Springer
Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate tunnel position and width in failed
primary single-bundle (SB) anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructions. It was …

Graft inclination angles in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction vary depending on femoral tunnel reaming method: comparison among transtibial, anteromedial …

M Jamsher, C Ballarati, M Viganò, M Hofbauer… - … : The Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose To compare graft coronal and sagittal inclination angles in anterior cruciate
ligament (ACL) reconstruction performed by different femoral tunnel drilling techniques with …

Tibiofemoral joint contact area and stress after single-bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with transtibial versus anteromedial portal drilling techniques

C Liu, Y Wang, Z Li, J Li, H Zhang, Y Fu… - Journal of Orthopaedic …, 2018 - Springer
Background During single-bundle ACLR, femoral tunnel location plays an important role in
restoring the intact knee mechanisms, whereas malplacement of the tunnel was cited as the …

Reliability of anatomic bony landmark localization of the ACL femoral footprint using 3D MRI

T Sivakumaran, R Jaffer, Y Marwan… - … Journal of Sports …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Nonanatomic placement of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) grafts is a leading
cause of ACL graft failure. Three-dimensional (3D) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) …

Current practices in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in the US military: A survey of the society of military orthopaedic surgeons

J Synovec, KA Shaw, IJ Antosh, J Grassbaugh… - Military …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Introduction The subject of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) contains a large
volume of research but very little consensus for ideal surgical technique, graft …