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Tibial C-Shaped Insertion of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament Without Posterolateral Bundle

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Previous anatomical studies described the tibial anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) insertion to be oval shaped including the insertions of the anteromedial (AM) and posterolateral (PL) bundles. However, several anatomical and histological cadaveric studies recently reported a flat and “ribbonlike” midsubstance of the ACL with a long but flat direct femoral ACL insertion along the intercondylar ridge. Based on these interesting findings, the purpose of this anatomical cadaveric study was to investigate the macroscopic appearance of the tibial ACL insertion.

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  1. Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 307, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Rainer Siebold & Joachim Kirsch

  2. HKF: Center for Specialised Hip-Knee-Foot Surgery, ATOS Hospital Heidelberg, Bismarckstr. 9-15, 69115, Heidelberg, Germany

    Rainer Siebold & Francis Fernadez

  3. Institute for Anatomy, University of Erlangen – Nürnberg, Krankenhausstr. 9, 91054, Erlangen, Germany

    Peter Schuhmacher & Axel Brehmer

  4. Orthopaedic and Sports Traumatology Department, Carolina Medical Center, Pory 78, 02-757, Warsaw, Poland

    Robert S´migielski

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Siebold, R., Schuhmacher, P., Brehmer, A., Fernadez, F., S´migielski, R., Kirsch, J. (2014). Tibial C-Shaped Insertion of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament Without Posterolateral Bundle. In: Siebold, R., Dejour, D., Zaffagnini, S. (eds) Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45349-6_3

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