Radiographic study on the tibial insertion of the posterior cruciate ligament》.pdf

r e v b r a s o r t o p . 2 0 1 5;5 0(3) :342–347 w w w. rbo.or g . b r Original Article Radiographic study on the tibial insertion of the posterior cruciate ligament Julio ∗ Cesar Gali , Paulo Esquerdo, Marco Antonio Pires Almagro, Phelipe Augusto Cintra da Silva Faculdade de Ciências Médicas e da Saúde de Sorocaba, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Objective: To establish the radiographic distances from posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) tib- Received 5 February 2014 ial insertions centers to the lateral and medial tibial cortex in the anteroposterior view, and Accepted 11 June 2014 from these centers to the PCL facet most proximal point on the lateral view, in order to guide Available online 17 April 2015 anatomical tunnels drilling in PCL reconstruction and for tunnel positioning postoperative analysis. Keywords: Study design: Controlled laboratory study. Tibia Methods: Twenty cadaver knees were evaluated. The PCL’s bundles tibial insertions were Posterior cruciate identified and marked out using metal tags, and the knees were radiographed. On these ligament/radiography radiographs, the bundles insertion sites center location relative to the tibial mediolateral Cadaver measure, and the distances from the most proximal PCL facet point to the bundle’s insertion