Prevalence and clinical implications of nerve injury during bone patellar tendon bone harvesting for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Purpose: Tendon harvesting for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction often injure sensory branches of the saphenous nerve (SN). Our purpose was to estimate the prevalence and postoperative course of sensory nerve injuries in bone patellar tendon bone (BPTB) autograft harvesting for ACL rec...

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Main Authors: Barak Haviv, Mustafa Yassin, Ehud Rath, Shlomo Bronak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-01-01
Series:Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2309499016684988