<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The incidence of ACL tear and reconstruction has increased over time, and failure of ACL reconstruction is not perfectly defined among surgeons. Atraumatic failure of ACL surgery represents approximately 70% of causes, and occurs in diagnostic errors, technical errors and problems of ACL graft integrations. Regarding surgical technique, we should answer certain questions about our choice of surgery, tunnel position, graft type, graft suture, tensioning the graft, and how we deal with certain incidents or intraoperative accidents. The purpose of this article is to review the current information and trends of ACL reconstruction, and presents some tips and tricks we use in our current practice.</p></abstract>

The incidence of ACL tear and reconstruction has increased over time, and failure of ACL reconstruction is not perfectly defined among surgeons. Atraumatic failure of ACL surgery represents approximately 70% of causes, and occurs in diagnostic errors, technical errors and problems of ACL graft integrations. Regarding surgical technique, we should answer certain questions about our choice of surgery, tunnel position, graft type, graft suture, tensioning the graft, and how we deal with certain incidents or intraoperative accidents. The purpose of this article is to review the current information and trends of ACL reconstruction, and presents some tips and tricks we use in our current practice.

ACL Surgical Technique — Staying Out of Trouble

“Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest,

“Victor Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timișoara,

“Victor Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timișoara, P-ța Eftimie Murgu nr. 2 300041,

“Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca,

“Victor Papillan” Faculty of Medicine, “Lucian Blaga” University, Sibiu,

University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Tîrgu Mureș,

Journal of Interdisciplinary Medicine

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The incidence of ACL tear and reconstruction has increased over time, and failure of ACL reconstruction is not perfectly defined among surgeons. Atraumatic...

ACL Surgical Technique — Staying Out of Trouble

Published Online: Nov 25, 2016

Page range: 31 - 35

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jim-2016-0052

Keywords
anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), reconstruction, technique, tips, anterolateral ligament (ALL)

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

ACL Surgical Technique — Staying Out of Trouble

Published Online: Nov 25, 2016

Page range: 31 - 35

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jim-2016-0052

Keywordsanterior cruciate ligament (ACL), reconstruction, technique, tips, anterolateral ligament (ALL)

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), reconstruction, technique, tips, anterolateral ligament (ALL)