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Table 4 Present and previous studies reporting midterm clinical and radiological outcomes of medial soft tissue procedures for patellar dislocations

From: Arthroscopy‐controlled medial reefing and lateral release for recurrent patellar dislocation: clinical, radiologic outcomes and complications

 

Present study

Nam et al.

Cerciell et al.

Liu et al.

Journal (year)

-

AJSM (2005)

KSSTA (2014)

AJSM (2018)

Type of study

ORS

ORS

ORS

ORS

Surgical technique for medial reefing

Open (extended) reefing of medial retinacular complex and VMO under arthroscopic tension control

Mini-open reefing of medial retinacular complex and VMO under arthroscopic tension control

Percutaneous reefing of the medial retinacular complex under arthroscopic tension control

Reconstruction of the medial patellofemoral ligament

Additional procedure

Percutaneous lateral release

Arthroscopic lateral release

No

No

Number of cases

25

23

30

121

F-U period, months

83.9 (45–146)

53 (17–168)

72 (44–114)

43.7 (24–111)

Postoperative Kujala score

91.0 ± 7.6

88.2 ± 13.5

88.4 ± 7.6

90.0 ± 11.8

Postoperative

congruence anglea, °

6.8 ± 2.4

-11.5 ± 8.7

NR

NR

Postoperative

patellar tilt anglea, °

5.6 ± 3.1

NR

9.0 ± 2.7

NR

Redislocation, n (%)

1 (4.0)

2 (8.7)

No

3 (2.5)

  1. AJSM American Journal of Sports Medicine, KSSTA Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, F-U follow-up, NR not reported, ORS observational retrospective study, VMO
  2. aValues are presented as mean ± standard deviation