Kang Tian, Guanying Gao, Tong-Chuan He, Hanmei Dong, Siqi Zhang, Weiguo Zhang, Jianquan Wang, Yan Xu
Current treatments for labral tear include surgical debridement, arthroscopic repair, and labral reconstruction. Although labral debridement and labral suture repair are suitable for most patients, labral reconstruction is the first treatment option when there is extensive labral degeneration or defect. Often, however, the labral degeneration or defect is only detected intraoperatively; therefore, the surgeon should always have a backup plan. The current labral reconstruction technique has shortcomings such as long operation time, difficult autograft harvesting, cumbersome graft preparation, and the need for a large surgical incision and re-sterilization and draping...
September 2023: Arthroscopy Techniques