Evaluation of the results of extensor mechanism reconstruction
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in The American Journal of Sports Medicine
- Vol. 16 (2) , 93-96
- https://doi.org/10.1177/036354658801600201
Abstract
One hundred sixteen patients underwent extensor mechanism reconstruction. Ninety-four returned at fol lowup (3 to 11 years after surgery). Twenty-two pa tients were lost to followup. Subjectively, 74% of the patients had either an excellent or good result and 26% either a fair or poor result. We found retrospectively, that the patients with either fair or poor results had a stable or only mildly unstable patella preoperatively.Keywords
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