The Lateral Tibial Tunnel in ACL Surgery (LTT-HVDB)

Ghent University Hospital (UZ)

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Revision Surgery

Treatments: Procedure: Lateral tibial tunnel

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01598636

2012/324

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Lateral Tibial Tunnel technique is a new concept in Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) surgery. In this technique a tibial tunnel is drilled from the antero-lateral side of the tibia towards the ACL footprint. This technique allows the surgeon to deal with bone stock problems in the antero-medial part of the tibia as often encountered in ACL revision surgery. In ACL revision surgery it is often impossible to perform a one-stage revision surgery procedure due to bone stock deficiency in the antero-medial side of the tibia. It is hypothesized that the Lateral tibial tunnel technique allows the surgeon to perform a one-stage procedure instead of a two stage procedure. Furthermore the lateral tibial tunnel technique allows better graft fixation in two-stage ACL revision surgery. Several biomechanical studies proved biomechanical superiority of the new technique compared to the classical technique.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients requiring ACL revision surgery
• patients requiring ACL surgery who have bone stock problems at the medial side of the proximal tibia

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 1 patient group

Lateral Tibial Tunnel technique

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Lateral tibial tunnel