Through bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft has been sucessfully used for the reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament, whereas, conservative treatment has been used for collateral ligament. We experienced 40 arthroscopically
reconstructions of
the anterior cruciate ligament from January 1990- to June 1993 using bone-jpatellar tendon-bone autograft. Our purpose is to review the results of ACL reconstruction with isolated ACL injurypatients(Group I) and MCL combined injured patient(Group
II);We
have followed up from 12months to 54months(average 29months). There was 17 cases in Group I and 23 cases in Group II. According to the evaluation format of the Swiss knee group(OAK;Muller´s criteria), in Group I, the results were excellent in 9
cases,
good in 7 cases, fair in 1 case. In Group II, excellent in 12 cases, good in 9 cases, fair in 2 cases. On instability evaluation by KT-1000 arthrometry, in Group I, the maximal manual displacement below 3mm difference in 13 cases, above 3mm
difference
in 4 cases. In Group II below 3mm difference in 17 cases, above 3mm difference in 6 cases. From the above results, there are no significant difference between the result of isolated ACL. Group and MCL. Combined group. We concluded that the acute
MCL
injury need not be surgically repaired in the ACL-MCL injured knee.
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