TY - JOUR
T1 - Correlation between the mid-substance cross-sectional anterior cruciate ligament size and the knee osseous morphology
AU - Yahagi, Yoshiyuki
AU - Horaguchi, Takashi
AU - Iriuchishima, Takanori
AU - Suruga, Makoto
AU - Iwama, Genki
AU - Aizawa, Shin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer-Verlag France SAS, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2020/2/1
Y1 - 2020/2/1
N2 - Introduction: One of the final goals of anatomical anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is the restoration of native anatomy. It is essential to obtain more accurate predictors of mid-substance ACL size before surgery. However, to the best of our knowledge, no study has reported correlation between the mid-substance cross-sectional ACL size and the knee osseous morphology. The purpose of this study was to reveal correlation between the mid-substance cross-sectional ACL size and the knee osseous morphology. Materials and methods: We used 39 non-paired formalin fixed Japanese cadaveric knees. All surrounding muscles, ligaments and soft tissues in the knee were resected. After soft tissue resection, the knee was flexed at 90°, and a tangential plane of the femoral posterior condyles was marked and cut the ACL. Femoral ACL footprint size, Blumensaat’s line length, lateral wall of the femoral intercondylar notch size, lateral wall of the femoral intercondylar notch height, tibial ACL footprint size, tibia plateau size, the whole anterior–posterior (AP) length, the medial and the lateral AP length of the tibia plateau, and the medial–lateral (ML) length of the tibia plateau were measured. The Pearson’s product movement correlation was calculated to reveal correlation between the mid-substance cross-sectional ACL size and the measured parameters of the knee osseous morphology. Results: The measured mid-substance cross-sectional ACL size was 49.9 ± 16.3 mm2. The tibial ACL footprint size, the tibia plateau size, the whole AP length of the tibia plateau, the lateral AP length of the tibia plateau and the ML length of the tibia plateau were significantly correlated with the mid-substance cross-sectional ACL size. Conclusions: For clinical relevance, some tibial sides of the knee osseous morphology were significantly correlated with the mid-substance cross-sectional ACL size. It might be possible to predict the mid-substance ACL size measuring these parameters.
AB - Introduction: One of the final goals of anatomical anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is the restoration of native anatomy. It is essential to obtain more accurate predictors of mid-substance ACL size before surgery. However, to the best of our knowledge, no study has reported correlation between the mid-substance cross-sectional ACL size and the knee osseous morphology. The purpose of this study was to reveal correlation between the mid-substance cross-sectional ACL size and the knee osseous morphology. Materials and methods: We used 39 non-paired formalin fixed Japanese cadaveric knees. All surrounding muscles, ligaments and soft tissues in the knee were resected. After soft tissue resection, the knee was flexed at 90°, and a tangential plane of the femoral posterior condyles was marked and cut the ACL. Femoral ACL footprint size, Blumensaat’s line length, lateral wall of the femoral intercondylar notch size, lateral wall of the femoral intercondylar notch height, tibial ACL footprint size, tibia plateau size, the whole anterior–posterior (AP) length, the medial and the lateral AP length of the tibia plateau, and the medial–lateral (ML) length of the tibia plateau were measured. The Pearson’s product movement correlation was calculated to reveal correlation between the mid-substance cross-sectional ACL size and the measured parameters of the knee osseous morphology. Results: The measured mid-substance cross-sectional ACL size was 49.9 ± 16.3 mm2. The tibial ACL footprint size, the tibia plateau size, the whole AP length of the tibia plateau, the lateral AP length of the tibia plateau and the ML length of the tibia plateau were significantly correlated with the mid-substance cross-sectional ACL size. Conclusions: For clinical relevance, some tibial sides of the knee osseous morphology were significantly correlated with the mid-substance cross-sectional ACL size. It might be possible to predict the mid-substance ACL size measuring these parameters.
KW - ACL
KW - Knee anatomy
KW - Mid-substance cross-sectional ACL size
KW - Tibia plateau
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U2 - 10.1007/s00590-019-02552-x
DO - 10.1007/s00590-019-02552-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 31552484
AN - SCOPUS:85074394501
SN - 1633-8065
VL - 30
SP - 291
EP - 296
JO - European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology
JF - European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology
IS - 2
ER -