Femoral Fixation With Curve Cross-Pin System in Arthroscopic Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.

Posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) ruptures account for 1% to 44% of all acute ligament injuries of the knee. In this paper we wanted to try out a system for femural fixation. Hamstring tendons are harvested and standard tibial tunnel is prepared using the transtibial PCL guide; by identifying the PCL footprint, the femoral half tunnel 27 to 30 mm with in-out technique is performed.

Percutaneous Fat Transfer to Treat Knee Osteoarthritis Symptoms: Preliminary Results.

 This study aims to evaluate the safety and efficacy of autologous aspirated and purified fat tissue injected percutaneously into the knee joint for the treatment of symptomatic osteoarthritis (OA).  We reviewed 30 patients, who received an autologous percutaneous fat injection for the treatment of knee OA, from January 2012 to March 2015. Mean patients' age was 63.

Pre-operative planning in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction revision surgery.

Primary reconstructions of the anterior cruciate ligament are common and increasing in number, a trend inevitably paralleled by an increase in the number of revision procedures. Failure of primary ACL reconstruction can appear as objective residual laxity, subjective instability, severe and persistent postoperative stiffness and/or pain, or infection. Revision surgery is a complex procedure, in which the expected clinical outcome is inferior to that which can be expected from primary reconstruction, and patients have a 5.

Arthroscopic guided biopsy and radiofrequency thermoablation of a benign neoplasm of the tibial spines area: a treatment option.

Background: Lesions located in the area of the tibial spines are rare. In most cases, treatment follows histological diagnosis, but when imaging and clinical data are considered to be "very" characteristic for benign lesions, such as chondroblastoma or osteoid osteoma, treatment may be performed without biopsy. Traditional curettage requires opening the joint, which presents a high risk of contamination of the joint itself and surrounding structures, such as the popliteal area, with possible contamination of the neurovascular bundle when performing curettage with the posterior approach.