Robot-assisted all-epiphyseal anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in skeletally immature patients: a retrospective study.

Journal: International orthopaedics
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Abstract

PURPOSE: To review a series of adolescent patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries surgically treated with robot-assisted all-epiphyseal ACL reconstruction (ACLR), and to compare with the traditional freehand group.

Authors

  • Liang Zhang
  • Qiuzhen Liang
    Sports Medicine Center, Honghui Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710054, China.
  • Zandong Zhao
    Sports Medicine Center, Honghui Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710054, China.
  • Li Zhang
    Department of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, College of Animal Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
  • Xin Kang
    Sports Medicine Center, Honghui Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710054, China.
  • Bin Tian
    Department of Medical Imaging, The Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China.
  • Bo Ren
    Department of Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Li Yu Shan Road, No. 137 Urumqi City 830054, China.
  • Xian Zhang
    The Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.
  • Zijun Gao
    Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. zijung@umich.edu.
  • Yue Wang
    Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
  • Jiang Zheng
    Sports Medicine Center, Honghui Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710054, China. xymade369@163.com.