This study reports 18 patients with 19 combined ligament injuries with complete anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear and a minimum grade II medial collateral ligament (MCL) tear who underwent early reconstruction of the ACL and nonoperative treatment of the MCL. Inclusion criteria included ACL reconstruction performed within 3 weeks of initial injury, no history of antecedent injury to the ips...

UNLABELLED Painful conditions and limited dorsal flexion of the ankle, which are the result of the friction of joint tissues and also the cause and the effect of altered joint biomechanics, are called ankle impingement syndromes. Post-traumatic ankle injures, like an ankle sprains or ankle fractures, are the main causes of impingement lesions, which result in chronic ankle pain. PURPOSE To ev...

OBJECTIVES Assess the worthiness of arthroscopy in investigating and treating knee pain after arthroplasty unexplained by clinical and subsidiary examinations. METHODS Among 402 patients submitted to total or unicompartimental arthroplasty between September 2001 and April 2007 at a public university hospital, 17 presented with pain on prosthetic articulation, without clear diagnosis by clinic...

total knee arthroplasty. Part 1 in the series, published in the January 2006 issue of Hospital Physician, reviewed evaluation, diagnosis, and classification of infection from a primary care physician’s perspective. This article discusses management of total knee arthroplasty infection from a surgical perspective. Once the diagnosis of deep infection has been established, a number of factors mus...

Background: Arthroscopic reconstruction of ACL is an effective method to restore knee stability after ACL rupture.Postoperative septic arthritis (SA) is very uncommon while the incidence of serious complications range between0.14% and 1.8%. Some of the devastating consequences of septic arthritis can encompass hyaline cartilage damage,arthrofibrosis, and in rare cases amputation. The purpose of...

PURPOSE The purposes of this study were to determine the frequency of acute and subacute complications (within 6 months) of arthroscopic knee procedures in patients aged 17 years or younger and to determine associated risk factors. METHODS We identified all patients aged 17 years or younger who underwent arthroscopic knee procedures at our institution from 1997 to 2009. Patient demographic an...

PURPOSE Mild slipped capital femoral epiphyses (SCFE) nevertheless show significant femoral head-neck deformities which may put cartilage and acetabular labrum at risk. Whether this deformity can be restored to normal has not yet been described in the literature. METHODS In a prospective follow-up study, 14 patients with mild SCFE underwent in situ fixation with a single 6.5-mm cancellous, pa...