title: [Repair of medial collateral ligament defect of knee joint with transposition of great adductor muscular tendon pedicled vessels].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the effect of transposition of great adductor muscular tendon pedicled vessels in repairing the medial collateral ligament defect of knee joint.
  
  
  METHODS
  From September 1991 to September 1999, on the basis study of applied anatomy, 30 patients with the medial collateral ligament defect were repaired with great adductor muscular tendon transposition pedicled vessels. Among them, there were 28 males and 2 females, aged 26 years in average.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Followed up for 17 to 60 months, 93.3% patients reached excellent or good grades. No case fell into the poor grade.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Because the great adductor muscular tendon is adjacent to the knee joint and similar to the knee ligament, it is appropriate to repair knee ligament. Transposition of the great adductor muscular tendon pedicled vessels is effective in the reconstruction of the medial collateral ligament defect of knee joint.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedic Surgery, 451th Hospital of PLA, Xi'an Shaanxi, P. R. China 710054.
authors.forename: G W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D017888:Medial Collateral Ligament, Knee / Q000601:surgery*; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D013709:Tendon Transfer / Q000379:methods*; D013710:Tendons / Q000098:blood supply