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ICL: Anatomy of the ACL and Reconstruction

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The ACL has two types of attachment margins. One is the relatively narrow oval attachment margin of the mid-substance (MS) fibres of ACL, and the other is the broader attachment margin of the “fan-like extension(FLE)” fibres, which extend from the MS fibres and broadly spread out on the posterior condyle.

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  1. OSM Research Foundation, Tivoli Ost, Olympiastr.39, Innsbruck, A - 6020, Austria

    Christian Fink MD, PhD

  2. Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Sports Medicine and Arthroscopic Center Omasairaala, Puutarhurinkuja 2, Helsinki, FIN-00300, Finland

    Timo Järvelä MD, PhD

  3. Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Rainer Siebold MD, PhD

  4. HKF- Center for Hip-Knee-Foot Surgery, ATOS Hospital Heidelberg, Sports Traumatology, Bismarckstr. 9-15, Heidelberg, Germany

    Rainer Siebold MD, PhD

  5. Sports Traumatology Department, Carolina Medical Center, Pory 78, Warsaw, 02-757, Poland

    Robert Śmigielski MD

  6. Department of Sports Medicine and Joint Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Kita-15, Nishi-7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8638, Japan

    Kazunori Yasuda MD, PhD

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Correspondence to Rainer Siebold MD, PhD , Kazunori Yasuda MD, PhD , Robert Śmigielski MD , Rainer Siebold MD, PhD , Christian Fink MD, PhD or Timo Järvelä MD, PhD .

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

    Stefano Zaffagnini

  2. Klinikum Brandenburg Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie, Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany

    Roland Becker

  3. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gino M.M.J. Kerkhoffs

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  5. Orthopedic Surgery, University of Amsterdam Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    C. Niek van Dijk

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Fink, C., Järvelä, T., Siebold, R., Śmigielski, R., Yasuda, K. (2014). ICL: Anatomy of the ACL and Reconstruction. In: Zaffagnini, S., Becker, R., Kerkhoffs, G., Espregueira Mendes, J., van Dijk, C. (eds) ESSKA Instructional Course Lecture Book. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-53983-1_6

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