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The American Journal of Sports Medicine 30:214-220 (2002)
© 2002 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine

A Prospective Randomized Comparison of Patellar Tendon Versus Semitendinosus and Gracilis Tendon Autografts for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Mark D. Shaieb, MD,{dagger}, Darryl M. Kan, MD, Spencer K. Chang, MD, Jay M. Marumoto, MD and Allen B. Richardson, MD

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii

Presented at the Arthroscopy Association of North America meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 1999.

{dagger} Address correspondence and reprint requests to Mark D. Shaieb, MD, 1827 Harrison Avenue, Panama City, FL 32405

Seventy patients with patellar tendon or hamstring tendon autografts for single-incision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction were evaluated at least 2 years after surgery. All reconstructions were performed by the same surgeon, and metal interference screws were used for fixation of all grafts. No significant differences were noted between groups for Lysholm score, reduction in activity, KT-1000 arthrometer findings, quadriceps muscle size, return to sports, or ability to jump and do hard cuts and pivots. Significantly more patients in the patellar tendon group had patellofemoral pain at 6 months after surgery than did the hamstring tendon patients (48% versus 20%), and at last follow-up the incidence of patellofemoral pain was 42% and 20%, respectively. Fourteen patients in the patellar tendon group and seven in the hamstring tendon group had loss of motion (approximately 5°). Four patients (two in each group) had treatment failures and their results were not included in the clinical examination data. At 2 years’ follow-up, 97% of patients with patellar tendon grafts and 100% of patients with hamstring tendon grafts rated their results as good or excellent. We found that hamstring tendon grafts performed similarly to patellar tendon grafts, although fewer patients in the hamstring tendon group had patellofemoral pain and loss of motion.




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