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Management of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament-Injured Knee in the Skeletally Immature Athlete.
Clinics in Sports Medicine 2017 January
Intrasubstance tears of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) are being diagnosed with increasing frequency in the skeletally immature. Management options include nonoperative/ early surgical, or delayed surgical reconstruction. Nonoperative/delayed reconstruction results in worse functional outcomes than early reconstruction. Physicians are faced with a treatment dilemma; clinical and basic science studies have demonstrated risk of limb-length discrepancy and angular deformity with ACL reconstruction. Vertical drill tunnels decrease physeal damage and minimize growth deformity; however, this technique results in nonanatomic ACL graft placement. All-epiphyseal reconstruction avoids damage to the growth plate. These techniques are biomechanically superior to extraarticular and modified physeal-sparing procedures.
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