Acute combined posterior cruciate and posterolateral instability of the knee
- 1 May 1984
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in The American Journal of Sports Medicine
- Vol. 12 (3), 204-208
- https://doi.org/10.1177/036354658401200307
Abstract
This report concerns 13 consecutive patients (13 knees) who underwent operative treatment for acute combined posterior cruciate and posterolateral instabil ity due to combined injury to the posterior cruciate ligament and the arcuate ligament complex. Our pur pose was to examine the method of diagnosis and the results in these patients. There were 12 males and 1 female (average age, 26 years). Five patients were injured in a motor vehicle accident, four in sports activ ities, and four in nonsports activities. The mechanism of injury was an anteromedial blow to the flexed knee in six patients, a fall onto the knee in two, and unknown in five patients. Eleven patients were available for fol low-up evaluation (average, 56 months), and in each the result was rated as good, fair, or poor. In 10 patients (90%) the results were rated as good subjectively, in 11 (100%) as good functionally, and in 8 (73%) as good objectively. Injury to both the posterior cruciate liga ment and the arcuate ligament complex can result from rotational force that can be due to a blow to the anteromedial aspect of the knee. Diagnosis can be made by a combined positive response to the posterior drawer test, the anterior drawer test performed with the tibia in internal rotation, the abduction and adduc tion stress tests performed with the knee in full exten sion, the posterolateral drawer test, and the external rotation-recurvatum test. In a knee with concomitant injury to the posterior cruciate ligament and the arcuate ligament complex that requires surgical repair, all in jured structures should be explored and repaired to ensure a subjectively, objectively, and functionally good result.Keywords
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