The Knee
Rounded-rectangular bone tunnels enhance early tendon-bone healing and limit tunnel enlargement in a rabbit anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with quadriceps tendon graft model.
Naoki Takemoto, Junsuke Nakase, Yasushi Takata, Yusuke Yanatori, Manase Nishimura, Kentaro Fujita, Mikino Saito, Satoru Demura
Published: 202510.1016/j.knee.2025.104309
Abstract
PURPOSE: To determine whether rounded-rectangular bone tunnels matching the flat morphology of a quadriceps tendon (QT) graft enhance early tendon-bone healing (TBH) and suppress bone-tunnel enlargement (BTE) after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) re…
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