Factors predicting hamstring tendon autograft diameters and resulting failure rates after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

• Published in: Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA Vol. 21; no. 5; pp. 1111 - 1118
• Main Authors: Park, Soo Yeon, Oh, Hoon, Park, Sua, Lee, Jung Hwan, Lee, Sang Hak, Yoon, Kyoung Ho
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.05.2013; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction - methods; Body mass index; Failure; Female; Gender; Humans; Joint and ligament injuries; Knee; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Orthopedics; Patients; Tendons; Tendons - transplantation; Transplantation, Autologous; Treatment Failure; Young Adult; United States > US; Diameter of hamstring tendon autograft; Failure rates; ACL reconstruction; Related factors

Purpose The purposes of this study are to confirm factors that affect the diameter of hamstring tendon autograft and to compare failure rates between the factors after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. Methods A total of 296 patients that underwent reconstruction using hamstring tendo...