Surgical solutions for anterior knee instability in patients with open physis. Surgical Techniques

Abstract

ACL injury in children with open physis is increasing due to greater participation in contact sports and early diagnosis. Conservative treatment of this type of injury is associated with the development of secondary chondral and meniscal injuries, so based on current literature the treatment of this type of injury in skeletally immature patients with objective and symptomatic anterior knee instability is surgical. The following work presents a review of eighteen skeletally immature patients with ACL reconstruction and an average follow-up of twenty-six months (between twelve and fifty-six months) evaluated with the Lysholm, Tegner and IKDC scores and postoperative telemetries with improvement in functional scores allowing return at the same level of sports activity in most cases. In this population, no changes in the angulation of the operated limb have been observed in the postoperative control telemetries or the development of growth alterations in any case.