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Definition and diagnosis of posterior cruciate ligament injury and algorithm of treatment

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Posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) injuries are less frequent than anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, but they are formidable when complete. Still rarely diagnosed at the end of the 1970s, PCL injuries have gained attention in the past 20 years and the science of PCL, although less fertile than the one of ACL, has shown great progress in the same time. PCL injuries represent 5–37% of all knee ligament injuries (1–7). Athletes suffer most of the time from isolated PCL lesions that occur frequently in a hyperfl exion movement (8, 9). However, in the trauma patients as many as 95% of patients with knee injuries have combined ligamentous damage (4, 10).

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Ménétrey, J. (2012). Definition and diagnosis of posterior cruciate ligament injury and algorithm of treatment. In: The Knee Joint. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-287-99353-4_28

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