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The treatment of anterior instability is important for preventing meniscal and cartilage changes. The patient most often looks for an expert on the chronic phase as well as eventual advanced degenerative changes.

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  1. Department of Knee, Orthopaedic Hospital Santíago do Outão, Setúbal, Portugal

    Pedro Pessoa MD

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  1. ATOS Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Rainer Siebold

  2. Lyon Ortho Clinic, Lyon, France

    David Dejour

  3. Istituti Ortopedico Rizzoli Clinica Ortopedica Traumatologica III, Bologna, Italy

    Stefano Zaffagnini

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Pessoa, P. (2014). Surgical Technique. In: Siebold, R., Dejour, D., Zaffagnini, S. (eds) Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45349-6_38

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