
Sports Medicine
No clinical significance between transportal & outside-in technique in ACL reconstruction
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Arthroscopy. 2012 Nov;28(11):1682-94. doi: 10.1016/j.arthro.2012.05.884.
39 patients undergoing anatomic double-bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction were randomized to two different femoral tunnel drilling techniques; the transportal technique or the outside-in technique. The results of the study have indicated that the outside-in technique results in more acute femoral graft bending angles and longer mean anteromedial femoral tunnel lengths, but it has yet to be determined if these differences are of clinical significance.
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