Reconstruction of the posterior cruciate ligament.
Presented is a three to eight year follow up of reefing of the posterior cruciate in 20 cases, and reconstruction of the posterior cruciate with a patellar tendon, quadriceps tendon flap as a "reversed Jones' procedure" in 10 cases. Using the reefing procedure, there were six excellent results, ten acceptable, and four poor results. The reconstruction resulted in no excellent results, six acceptable, and four unchanged. Further improvements in present techniques are necessary before satisfactory results following reconstruction of the posterior cruciate ligament can be routinely expected.
D000328:Adult; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint; D008023:Ligaments, Articular / Q000293:injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000379:methods*