Robert G. Marx 
Revision ACL Reconstruction [PDF ebook] 
Indications and Technique

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Although anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction has a high success rate, a substantial number of patients are left with unsatisfactory results.
Revision ACL Reconstruction: Indications and Technique provides detailed strategies for planning and executing revision ACL reconstructions. Concise chapters by a leading group of international orthopedic surgeons cover the diagnosis of failed ACL reconstruction, patient evaluation, preoperative planning for revision ACL surgery and complex technical considerations.

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Table of Content

Patient-related risk factors for ACL graft failure.- Avoiding the failed ACL: how to prevent ACL tears before they occur.- Diagnosis of failed ACL reconstruction.- Biomechanics and Etiology of ACL graft failure.- Technical causes of ACL graft failure.- Indications for revision ACL reconstruction.- Preoperative planning for revision ACL reconstruction.- Graft selection for revision ACL reconstruction.- How to handle a poorly placed femoral tunnel.- How to handle a poorly placed tibial tunnel.- Fixation in revision ACL reconstruction.- Single stage ACL revision reconstruction: indications and technique.- Two stage ACL revision: indications and technique.- Revising failed double-bundle ACL reconstruction.- The role of lateral extra-arcticular augmentation in revision ACL reconstruction.- Managing the infected ACL reconstruction.- Meniscus allograft transplantation in revision ACL reconstruction.- Cartilage surgery in revision ACL reconstruction.- Medial collateral ligament laxity in revision ACL reconstruction.- Posterolateral corner deficiency in revision ACL reconstruction.- Osteotomy for slope correction following failed ACL reconstruction.- Osteotomy for malalignment following failed ACL reconstruction.- Navigation for revision ACL reconstruction.- Approach to the multiply revised ACL knee.- Outcomes of revision ACL.

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Robert G. Marx, MD, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 273 ● ISBN 9781461407669 ● File size 11.0 MB ● Editor Robert G. Marx ● Publisher Springer New York ● City NY ● Country US ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4600857 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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