Featuring fifteen brand-new chapters and twenty thoroughly updated chapters, Master Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery: Reconstructive Knee Surgery, Third editiondescribes the latest techniques for reconstructive knee surgery.

Techniques are shown in step-by-step detail and offer pearls and tips for improving results. The book is thoroughly illustrated with full-color, sequential, surgeon's-eye view intraoperative photographs, as well as drawings by noted medical illustrators.

Contents

Part I: Extensor Mechanism-Patellofemoral Problems

1. Arthroscopic Lateral Release of the Patella with Radiofrequency Ablation
2. Medial Patellofemoral Ligament Reconstruction and Repair
3. Anteromedial Tibial Tubercle Transfer
4. Patellectomy
5. Patella and/or Extensor Mechanism Allograft Reconstruction
6. Acute Quadriceps Tendon Repair
7. Patella Tendon Repair

Part II: Meniscus Surgery

8. Meniscus Repair: Inside-Out Suture Technique
9. Meniscal Repair with Meniscal Fixators
10. Meniscal Transplantation Without Bone Plugs
11. Medial and Lateral Meniscus Transplantation: Arthroscopic Assisted Techniques and Clinical Outcome

Part III: Ligament Injuries and Instability

12. Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
13. Anatomic Anterior Cruciate Ligament Double-Bundle Reconstruction
14. Avoiding ACL Graft Impingement: Principles for Tunnel Placement Using the Transtibial Tunnel Technique
15. Patellar Tendon Graft Harvesting
16. Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction with Autogenous Hamstring Tendon Autografts and Endobutton Femoral Fixation
17. Allograft Preparation for ACL Reconstruction
18. Arthroscopic-Assisted Single Bundle Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
19. Double Bundle Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
20. Inlay Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
21. Posterolateral Corner and Fibular Collateral Ligament Reconstruction
22. Medial Collateral Ligament Reconstruction
23. Surgical Technique for Knee Dislocations
24. High Tibial Osteotomy in Knees with Associated Chronic Ligament Deficiencies
25. Guidance System for ACL Reconstruction

Part IV: Articular Cartilage and Synosium

26. Arthroscopic Chondroplasty and/or Debridement
27. Microfracture Technique: Treatment of Full Thickness Chondral Lesions
28. Osteochondral Plug Transplantation
29. Chondrocyte Transplantation
30. Opening Wedge Osteotomy
31. Computer Assisted Opening Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy
32. Allograft Transplantation for Articular Defects of the Knee
33. Allograft Osteochondral Plugs
34. Osteochondritis Dissecans of the Knee
35. Synovectomy for Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis

Index

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