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Study of our anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) plasties shows that more than one-fourth of failures are due to technical faults. This is true for all types of repair and especially for those involving the use of artificial ligaments, which are less tolerant than autogenous ligaments. These observations have led us to propose a set of rules, the first of which being the respect of isometry. Isometry has two components: “extrinsic” isometry depends on the choice of the femoral and tibial insertions, and “intrinsic” isometry depends on the ligament architecture.
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Laboureau, J.P., Marnat-Perrichet, F. (1997). Isometric Reconstruction of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament: Femoral and Tibial Tunnel Placement. In: Yahia, L. (eds) Ligaments and Ligamentoplasties. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60428-7_10
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