Publications by authors named "Warren W Nielsen"
Article Synopsis
- - High-grade knee posterolateral corner (PLC) injuries can lead to severe instability and complications like graft failure and early osteoarthritis if improperly diagnosed or treated.
- - PLC reconstruction generally yields better outcomes than repair, with biomechanical studies offering mixed results on techniques; some methods using a separate tibial tunnel for specific ligaments show improved stability.
- - Recent reviews highlight the complexity of PLC injuries, as they often occur with cruciate ligament tears and exhibit various laxity patterns, although both reconstruction techniques demonstrate low rates of complications and failures.
Meniscal ramp lesions are reported to occur in 9% to 42% of anterior cruciate ligament tears. Biomechanical research shows that the presence of a meniscal ramp lesion, in the setting of an anterior cruciate ligament tear, leads to increased knee anteroposterior and rotatory laxity when compared with an uninjured medial meniscus. This finding also has been verified clinically.
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