On the treatment of some intra-articular injuries of the knee joint

Abstract

From 1970 to 1985, 414 patients with ligament-capsular apparatus ruptures of the knee joint were treated in the Clinic of Traumatology, Orthopedics and Military Field Surgery. Autotissues were used as plastic material in the majority of them, and preserved tendons and lavsan were used when indicated. The clinic developed and successfully applied minimally traumatic methods of plasty of injuries of the anterior cruciate and internal collateral ligaments of the knee joint, combined with rupture of the internal meniscus (Turner triad).