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Clinical questions are outlined in 5 sections. In the first section
is about preoperative questions including indications, diagnostic
measures, combined ligament injuries, graft choice, preparation
before surgery, avulsion of the eminence, examination in posterolateral
corner injury. In the second section is preoperative questions are
subjected including dropping the graft to the floor, posterior wall
blowout, knees without hamstring tendon, graft amputation by interference
screw, to avoid vertical tunnel in tibia, fixation methods of graft,
femoral and tibial tunnel positioning. Third section is about postoperative
questions including postoperative management, differences in postoperative
rehabilitation protocols in different type of grafts, postoperative
man-agement of meniscal repair, management in difficulties in gaining
extension, infection, patellar pain, timing of reop-eration in motion
problems, criteria returning to sports, outcome measures, outcome
in using different grafts, role of bracing. The fourth section is
about failed ACL recon-struction including causes, indications for
revision, ex-panded tunnels, graft choice in revision surgery, contro-lateral
patellar tendon graft for revision, rehab protocol after revision
surgery, hardware removal, early degenera-tive joint disease, pain
and instability, one stage ACL reconstruction and HTO, patellar
fracture in patients with patellar tendon graft, tunnel position
in revision setting. The fifth section is about pediatric/adolescent
patients including, ACL injury in adolescent with open growth plates,
surgical options in adolescents, the risk for adoles-cent females,
the risk for opposite side, prevention pro-gram. The last chapter
is about miscellaneous questions including non-operative treatment
protocol, long-term implications of recurrent instability, and implications
of ACL reconstruction on future development of degenera-tive arthritis.
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