Repair of the Torn Achilles Tendon, Using the Plantaris Tendon as a Reinforcing Membrane

1 March 1966

journal article
Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Vol. 48 (2) , 268-272
https://doi.org/10.2106/00004623-196648020-00005

Abstract

A method has been described for repairing a ruptured Achilles tendon and reinforcing it with the plantaris tendon stretched into a membrance. Follow-up studies on eleven of eighteen tendons so treated revealed excellent results.

Keywords

MEMBRANCE
ELEVEN
RUPTURED
STRETCHED
REPAIRING
TORN ACHILLES
ACHILLES TENDON

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