NCT01598636

The Lateral Tibial Tunnel in ACL Surgery

The Lateral Tibial Tunnel in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Surgery. A Clinical and Ct-graphic Study.to Evaluate the Concept

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Ghent · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The Lateral Tibial Tunnel technique is a new concept in Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) surgery. In this technique a tibial tunnel is drilled from the antero-lateral side of the tibia towards the ACL footprint. This technique allows the surgeon to deal with bone stock problems in the antero-medial part of the tibia as often encountered in ACL revision surgery. In ACL revision surgery it is often impossible to perform a one-stage revision surgery procedure due to bone stock deficiency in the antero-medial side of the tibia. It is hypothesized that the Lateral tibial tunnel technique allows the surgeon to perform a one-stage procedure instead of a two stage procedure. Furthermore the lateral tibial tunnel technique allows better graft fixation in two-stage ACL revision surgery. Several biomechanical studies proved biomechanical superiority of the new technique compared to the classical technique.

Conditions

• Anterior Cruciate Ligament Revision Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Lateral tibial tunnel	To reduce the rehabilitation time after ACL revision surgery due to a better surgical technique

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-02-01
• Primary completion: 2014-06-01
• Completion: 2014-06-01
• First posted: 2012-05-15
• Last updated: 2022-12-15

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: Belgium