ACL Injury

Posterior Tibial Slope in Patients Undergoing Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction With Patellar Tendon Autograft: Analysis of Subsequent ACL Graft Tear or Contrlateral ACL Tear K. Donald Shelbourne, MD, Rodney Benner, MD, Jonathan A Jones, and Tinker Gray, MA.

Shelbourne, KD, Benner RW, Jones JA, Gray T. Posterior tibial slope in patients undergoing anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with patellar tendon autograft: Analysis of subsequent ACL graft tear or contralateral ACL tear. Am J Sports Med. 2021 Mar;49(3):620-625. View video abstract here.

Proposed mechanism for non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injury. Ann Sports Med Res. 2016; 3(8):1095. https://www.jscimedcentral.com/SportsMedicine/sportsmedicine-3-1095.pdf

Intercondylar notch width measurement differences between African-American and Caucasian men and women with intact-ACL knees. Shelbourne KD, Benner RW, Gray T. Am J Sports Med. 2007;35:1304-1307.

The Relationship Between Intercondylar Notch Width of the Femur and the Incidence of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tears. A Prospective Study. Shelbourne KD, Davis TJ, Klootwyk TE. Am J Sports Med. 1998;26:402-408.

Correlation of the Intercondylar Notch Width of the Femur to the Width of the Anterior and Posterior Cruciate Ligaments. Davis TJ, Shelbourne KD, Klootwyk TE. Knee Surg. Sports Traumatol, Arthrosc. 1999;7:209-214.

Radiographic and Intraoperative Intercondylar Notch Width Measurements in Men and Women with Unilateral and Bilateral Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tears. Shelbourne KD, Facibene WA, Hunt JJ. Knee Surg. Sports Traumatol, Arthrosc. 1997;5:229-233.

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