A new technique of surgical planning for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction Feasibility Assessment of Shear Wave Elastography to Tendon of Semitendinosus Muscle

• Published in: Clinical anatomy (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 404 - 408
• Main Authors: Itoigawa, Yoshiaki, Takazawa, Yuji, Maruyama, Yuichiro, Yoshida, Keiichi, Sakai, Tatsuo, Ichimura, Koichiro, Kaneko, Kazuo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.04.2018
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction; Elasticity Imaging Techniques; Feasibility Studies; Female; Hamstring Tendons - diagnostic imaging; Humans; Male; Transplants - diagnostic imaging; ultrasound imaging; anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction; elastography; semitendinosus tendon

There is currently no method to quantify the quality of the harvested graft before anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. The purpose of this study was to explore a method for measuring stiffness of the normal tendon of the semitendinosus muscle using shear wave elastography (SWE). Our inv...