Posterior Cruciate Ligament Agenesis Requiring Surgical Reconstruction

Agenesis of the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) is a rare disorder often found in conjunction with various other abnormalities within the knee. A 15-year-old adolescent boy presented with an absent PCL, leading to intermittent symptoms. At the age of 20 years, the patient underwent arthroscopicall...

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Autores principales: Kreutzer, Adam, Bast, Nicholas, Fan, Juston, Gates, Jeffrey
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10697616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38047876
http://dx.doi.org/10.5435/JAAOSGlobal-D-23-00121
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author Kreutzer, Adam
Bast, Nicholas
Fan, Juston
Gates, Jeffrey
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description Agenesis of the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) is a rare disorder often found in conjunction with various other abnormalities within the knee. A 15-year-old adolescent boy presented with an absent PCL, leading to intermittent symptoms. At the age of 20 years, the patient underwent arthroscopically assisted PCL reconstruction. The patient was permitted to weightbear immediately after the procedure and started physical therapy 4 weeks after the procedure. No complications were encountered at the 2-year follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-106976162023-12-06 Posterior Cruciate Ligament Agenesis Requiring Surgical Reconstruction Kreutzer, Adam Bast, Nicholas Fan, Juston Gates, Jeffrey J Am Acad Orthop Surg Glob Res Rev Case Report Agenesis of the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) is a rare disorder often found in conjunction with various other abnormalities within the knee. A 15-year-old adolescent boy presented with an absent PCL, leading to intermittent symptoms. At the age of 20 years, the patient underwent arthroscopically assisted PCL reconstruction. The patient was permitted to weightbear immediately after the procedure and started physical therapy 4 weeks after the procedure. No complications were encountered at the 2-year follow-up. Wolters Kluwer 2023-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10697616/ /pubmed/38047876 http://dx.doi.org/10.5435/JAAOSGlobal-D-23-00121 Text en Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.
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Kreutzer, Adam
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Posterior Cruciate Ligament Agenesis Requiring Surgical Reconstruction
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title_short Posterior Cruciate Ligament Agenesis Requiring Surgical Reconstruction
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10697616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38047876
http://dx.doi.org/10.5435/JAAOSGlobal-D-23-00121
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