[Rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament at a peripheral hospital. Apropos of 70 cases].

Three years after surgery on average seventy patients with surgically "treated" or "repaired" lesions of the anterior cruciate ligament were evaluated. According to the operative technique, the patients were divided into 4 groups: Group I: suture of ligament only, Group II: Eriksson-Trillat plasty, Group III: McIntosh plasty, Group IV: Dacron plasty. The results were assessed according to the Marschall-score. Good results were obtained in the first group. The results with the fourth group were at the time of the examination "good" too, however, one third of them had to be reoperated in the following six months. For fresh ruptures of the ACL we advocate the primary suture of the ligament with, if necessary, an augmentation.