Zícaro Juan Pablo, Rómolil Agustín Rubén Molina, Yacuzzi Carlos Heraldo, Paz Matías Costa
Department of Orthopaedics, Italian Hospital from Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
J Orthop Case Rep. 2017 Nov-Dec;7(6):41-45. doi: 10.13107/jocr.2250-0685.942.
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is a "daily" surgery. Nevertheless, pretibial cyst formation is a very rare complication and may appear years after the reconstruction. Even more infrequent is the recurrence of this complication.
We present a patient who developed a pretibial cyst 44 months after an ACL reconstruction and who underwent three open surgeries due to recurrence. Up to date, there are no symptoms or signals of cyst recurrence after 18 months of follow-up.
Initial surgical resection might have failed due to insufficient surgical treatment. In case of suspicion of articular communication, we consider that the correct treatment is the resection of the cyst, proper curettage of the tunnel walls and a thorough filling of the space with bone graft. This course oftreatment may avoid a recurrence.
前交叉韧带(ACL)重建是一种“常见”手术。然而,胫骨前囊肿形成是一种非常罕见的并发症,可能在重建术后数年出现。这种并发症的复发更为罕见。
我们报告一名患者,在ACL重建术后44个月出现胫骨前囊肿,并因囊肿复发接受了三次开放性手术。截至目前,在随访18个月后,没有囊肿复发的症状或迹象。
最初的手术切除可能因手术治疗不充分而失败。如果怀疑存在关节相通,我们认为正确的治疗方法是切除囊肿、适当刮除隧道壁并使用骨移植彻底填充该空间。这种治疗过程可能避免复发。