Featuring fifteen brand-new chapters and twenty thoroughly updated chapters, the Third Edition of this highly acclaimed volume describes the latest techniques for reconstructive knee surgery. The world's foremost experts share their approaches to extensor mechanism and patellofemoral reconstruction, meniscal repair and fixation, meniscal transplantation, cruciate ligament tunnel placement and fixation, graft harvesting, use of allografts, ACL, PCL, MCL and posterolateral corner reconstruction, opening-wedge osteotomy, computer assisted surgery, arthroscopic chondroplasty, microfracture, osteochondral plugs, chondrocyte transplantation, and pigmented villonodular synovitis resection.

The contributors describe their preferred techniques in step-by-step detail and offer pearls and tips for improving results. The book is thoroughly illustrated with full-color, sequential, surgeon's-eye view intraoperative photographs, as well as drawings by noted medical illustrators.

A companion Website offers the fully searchable text and an image bank.

PART I EXTENSOR MECHANISM-PATELLOFEMORAL PROBLEMS :

Chapter 1 Arthroscopic Lateral Release of the Patella with Radiofrequency Ablation

Chapter 2 Medial Patellofemoral Ligament Reconstruction and Repair

Chapter 3 Anteromedial Tibial Tubercle Transfer

Chapter 4 Patellectomy

Chapter 5 Patella and/or Extensor Mechanism Allograft Reconstruction

Chapter 6 Acute Quadriceps Tendon Repair

Chapter 7 Patella Tendon Repair

PART II MENISCUS SURGERY:

Chapter 8 Meniscus Repair: Inside-Out Suture Technique

Chapter 9 Meniscal Repair with Meniscal Fixators

Chapter 10 Meniscal Transplantation Without Bone Plugs

Chapter 11 Medial and Lateral Meniscus Transplantation: Arthroscopic Assisted Techniques and Clinical Outcome

PART III LIGAMENT INJURIES AND INSTABILITY:

Chapter 12 Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Chapter 13 Anatomic Anterior Cruciate Ligament Double-Bundle Reconstruction

Chapter 14 Avoiding ACL Graft Impingement: Principles for Tunnel Placement Using the Transtibial Tunnel Technique

Chapter 15 Patellar Tendon Graft Harvesting

Chapter 16 Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction with Autogenous Hamstring Tendon Autografts and Endobutton Femoral Fixation

Chapter 17 Allograft Preparation for ACL Reconstruction

Chapter 18 Arthroscopic-Assisted Single Bundle Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Chapter 19 Double Bundle Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Chapter 20 Inlay Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Chapter 21 Posterolateral Corner and Fibular Collateral Ligament Reconstruction

Chapter 22 Medial Collateral Ligament Reconstruction

Chapter 23 Surgical Technique for Knee Dislocations

Chapter 24 High Tibial Osteotomy in Knees with Associated Chronic Ligament Deficiencies

Chapter 25 Guidance System for ACL Reconstruction

PART IV ARTICULAR CARTILAGE AND SYNOSIUM:

Chapter 26 Arthroscopic Chondroplasty and/or Debridement

Chapter 27 Microfracture Technique: Treatment of Full Thickness Chondral Lesions

Chapter 28 Osteochondral Plug Transplantation

Chapter 29 Chondrocyte Transplantation

Chapter 30 Opening Wedge Osteotomy

Chapter 31 Computer Assisted Opening Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy

Chapter 32 Allograft Transplantation for Articular Defects of the Knee

Chapter 33 Allograft Osteochondral Plugs

Chapter 34 Osteochondritis Dissecans of the Knee

Chapter 35 Synovectomy for Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis

INDEX