GENEVA — Bone-patellar tendon-bone and double-looped semitendinosus and gracilis grafts for ACL reconstructions produced results that were not significantly different at short- and long-term follow-up, according to a presenter at the European Society of Sports Traumatology Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy Congress 2012 here.
The researchers found bone-patellar tendon-bone (BPTB) and double-looped semitendinosus and gracilis (DLSG) grafts proved successful for ACL reconstruction, but they noted one technique was not necessarily superior to another in their comparative study of 114 patients. In the study, results for 58 patients in the BPTB group were compared to 56 patients in the DLSG group at 1 year, 2 years and 7 years postoperatively.
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