Posterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries (2^nd Ed., 2nd ed. 2015) A Practical Guide to Management

Now in a revised and expanded second edition including ten new chapters, this classic text on the diagnosis and management of posterior cruciate ligament injuries represents the state of the art. Comprehensive and used-friendly, the book covers PCL anatomy and biomechanics, diagnosis and evaluation, and both surgical and non-surgical treatment strategies. Surgical chapters discuss graft selection and open and arthroscopic techniques, including both primary and revision surgery and combined reconstruction with other knee ligaments. New chapters illustrate cutting-edge and advanced surgical techniques in reconstruction and primary repair, articular cartilage resurfacing and meniscus transplant in the PCL injured knee, mechanical graft tensioning, the role of osteotomy, treatment of PCL injuries in children, results of treatment and outcomes data in PCL injuries, clinical case studies, and the editor?s experience chapter based on 24 years of treating PCL injuries. Complications, bracing and rehabilitation round out the presentation. Written and edited by leaders in the management of injuries to the knee, this will be an invaluable text for orthopedic surgeons and sports medicine practitioners alike.

Part I: Editor’s Experience.- Posterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries and Reconstruction: What I Have Learned.- Part II: Anatomy and Biomechanics.- Anatomy and Biomechanics of the Posterior Cruciate Ligament and their Surgical Implications.- Anatomy and Biomechanics of the Posterolateral and Posteromedial Corners of the Knee and their Surgical Implications.- Part III: Diagnosis and Evaluation.- Clinical and Arthroscopic Evaluation of the Posterior Cruciate Ligament Injured Knee.- Instrumented Measurement of the Multiple Ligament Injured Knee: Arthrometry, Stress Radiography, Rotationometry, and Computer Navigation.- MRI Imaging of PCL, Posteromedial, and Posterolateral Corner Injuries of the Knee.- Part IV: Non-Surgical Treatment.- Nonoperative Treatment and Natural History of Posterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries.- Part V: Surgical Treatment.- Graft Selection in Posterior Cruciate Ligament Surgery.- Arthroscopic Transtibial Tunnel Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.- Open Tibial Inlay Graft for Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.- All-Arthroscopic Tibial Inlay Double-Bundle Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.- All-Inside Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.- The All-Inside Technique: Surgical Technique and Outcomes.- Arthroscopic Primary Repair of Posterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries.- Combined PCL, ACL, Posteromedial, and Posterolateral Reconstruction.- Surgical Treatment of Combined PCL/Lateral-Sided Injuries.- Combined Posterior Cruciate Ligament and Posteromedial Reconstruction.- Combined PCL, Posteromedial Corner and Posterolateral Corner Reconstruction.- Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in Patients Eighteen Years of Age and Younger.- Revision Surgery in the Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.- Part VI: Other Considerations.- Mechanical Graft Tensioning in Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.- The Role of Osteotomy in the Treatment of PCL Injuries.- Articular Cartilage Restoration in the PCLInjured Knee.- Meniscus Transplant in the PCL Injured Knee.- Rehabilitation Following PCL Reconstruction:  Scientific and Theoretical Basis.- Brace Considerations for Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL) Injuries of the Knee.- Complications and PCL Reconstruction.- Part VII: Outcomes of Treatment.- Results of Treatment of Posterior Cruciate Ligament Surgery.- Part VIII: Clinical Case Studies.- Selected Case Studies in Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.