Open AccessTo Study the Incidence of Heterotopic Ossification After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
Author(s) -
Bhaskara Bhandary
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2013/5348.2970
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , complication , ossification , anterior cruciate ligament , anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction , incidence (geometry) , heterotopic ossification , orthopedic surgery , physics , optics
Previous studies have enumerated the advantages of an arthroscopic Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstruction with the use of a Bone Patellar Tendon Bone (BPTB) graft. Complications are extremely rare in such surgeries and one such known complication, which is an extra-articular heterotophic ossification at the femoral tunnel site, is rarely seen only in few patients.