TY - JOUR
T1 - Knee multi-ligament reconstruction
T2 - a historical note on the fundamental landmarks
AU - Di Matteo, B.
AU - Tarabella, V.
AU - Filardo, G.
AU - Tomba, Patrizia
AU - Viganò, Anna
AU - Marcacci, M.
AU - Zaffagnini, S.
PY - 2015/5/10
Y1 - 2015/5/10
N2 - Several eminent surgeons made breakthroughs in knee surgery throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Before that, knee injuries were only treated conservatively and it was thanks to the progress made in the field of biomechanics and biology that new surgical treatments were proposed. The history of medicine recalls some illustrious surgeons such as Thomas Annandale and Mayo Robson who were the first to perform and describe their revolutionary experience regarding meniscal and anterior cruciate ligament surgery. Less famous are the forefathers of multi-ligament reconstructive surgery: the purpose of this paper was to shed some light on the pioneers of this particular field of orthopaedic practice, which is gaining increasing interest in current clinical practice. Level of evidence V.
AB - Several eminent surgeons made breakthroughs in knee surgery throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Before that, knee injuries were only treated conservatively and it was thanks to the progress made in the field of biomechanics and biology that new surgical treatments were proposed. The history of medicine recalls some illustrious surgeons such as Thomas Annandale and Mayo Robson who were the first to perform and describe their revolutionary experience regarding meniscal and anterior cruciate ligament surgery. Less famous are the forefathers of multi-ligament reconstructive surgery: the purpose of this paper was to shed some light on the pioneers of this particular field of orthopaedic practice, which is gaining increasing interest in current clinical practice. Level of evidence V.
KW - ACL
KW - Collateral ligaments
KW - History of surgery
KW - Multi-ligament reconstruction
KW - PLC
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U2 - 10.1007/s00167-015-3615-7
DO - 10.1007/s00167-015-3615-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 25957604
AN - SCOPUS:84942292735
VL - 23
SP - 2773
EP - 2779
JO - Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy
JF - Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy
SN - 0942-2056
IS - 10
ER -