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Abstracts Posters SICOT-SOF meeting Gothenburg 2010 _2_

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Poster<br />

Topic: Trauma - Knee<br />

Abstract number: 25609<br />

PATTELAR TENDON AND HAMSTRING TENDON IN ACL RECONSTRUCTION- A<br />

COMPARATIVE STUDY<br />

Cristina PATRU 1 , Gheorghe Ion POPESCU 1 , Olivera LUPESCU 1 , Mihail NAGEA 2 ,<br />

Camelia TECU 1<br />

1 Emergency Hospital, Bucharest (ROMANIA), 2 Emergancy hospital, Bucharest<br />

(ROMANIA)<br />

Introduction: we use hamstring tendon and bone-patelar tendon-bone autograft to<br />

compare the results of ACL reconstruction using the same technique for<br />

fixation.Methods: between 2005-2007 we operated 70 patients with a complete ACL<br />

tear used BTB (35 patients) or hamstings (35 patients) autograft. We excluded<br />

patients with multiple ligament injuries. We used Rigid fix system to fix femoral side of<br />

the graft and bioabsorbable interference screw for tibial fixation.Patients were<br />

assessed at one and two years postoperatively, using KT-1000, IKDC score and<br />

Lysholm scale. Statistical significance was as p

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