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Tibial Tubercle Procedure: Old Osgood-Schlatter

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Osgood-Schlatter disease is a common cause of anterior knee pain in adolescents who partake in regular sports activities. Even though the disease is known to be self-limiting and most often resolved with skeletal maturity, long-term outcomes have not always been favorable. If conservative treatment fails and persisting knee pain hinders the athlete to return to their level of activity, surgical treatment may become necessary to alleviate symptoms. Several surgical options are reported in the literature, and their operative techniques and outcomes are discussed here.

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  1. Orthofocus, Salzburg, Austria

    Gerd Seitlinger

  2. Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Surgery, Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

    Hannah N. Ladenhauf

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  1. Lyon-Ortho-Clinic, Lyon, France

    David Dejour

  2. Istituti Ortopedico Rizzoli Clinica, Ortopedica Traumatologica III, Bologna, Italy

    Stefano Zaffagnini

  3. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Elizabeth A. Arendt

  4. Department of Paediatric Surgery, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

    Petri Sillanpää

  5. Clinic Diakonissen LinzOrthopädie & Sportchirurgie Linz, Puchenau, Austria

    Florian Dirisamer

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Seitlinger, G., Ladenhauf, H.N. (2020). Tibial Tubercle Procedure: Old Osgood-Schlatter. In: Dejour, D., Zaffagnini, S., Arendt, E., Sillanpää, P., Dirisamer, F. (eds) Patellofemoral Pain, Instability, and Arthritis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61097-8_50

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