Skip to main content

Table 1 Studies on transphyseal ACL reconstruction

From: A systematic review of transphyseal ACL reconstruction in children and adolescents: comparing the transtibial and independent femoral tunnel drilling techniques

Nr

First author, year

No. of patients

Age of patients

(years)

Study design

MINORS

Femoral drilling technique

Graft

Tanner stage

Mean follow up (years)

Re-rupture (%)

Contralateral ACL rupture (%)

Growth abnormalities with need for treatment

1

Shelbourne, 2004

16

14.8

Retrospective

9

TT

BTB

3–4

3.4

1 (6.3%)

2 (12.5%)

0

2

McIntosh, 2006

18

13.8

Retrospective

8

TT

HT

NR

3.4 (2–9.3)

2 (11.1%)

NR

1

3

Liddle, 2008

17

12.1

Retrospective

7

TT

HT

NR

4.4

1 (5.9%)

NR

0

4

Cohen, 2009

26

13.3

Retrospective

7

TT

HT

NR

4.5

3 (11.5%)

NR

0

5

Streich et al. 2010

16

11

Retrospective

9

TT

HT

1–2

5.8

0 (0)

NR

0

6

Mauch, 2011

49

13

Retrospective

10

TT

QT

NR

5

5 (10.2%)

5 (10.2%)

1

7

Nikolaou, 2011

94

13.7

Retrospective

10

TT

HT

NR

3.2 (2–5)

4 (4.3%)

NR

0

8

Courvoisier, 2011

37

14

Retrospective

6

TT

HT

NR

2

5 (13.5%)

NR

0

9

Hui, 2012

16

12

Prospective

13

MP

HT from living donor

NR

2.1 (1.8–2.8)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0

10

Redler, 2012

18

14.2

Retrospective

9

TT

HT

NR

3.6 (2–7.2)

0 (0)

3 (16.6%)

0

11

Memeo 2012

10

14.4

Retrospective

7

TT

BTB

3

15

1 (10.0%)

NR

0

12

Kumar, 2013

32

11.3

Prospective

9

TT

HT

1–3

6 (4–10.8)

1 (3.1%)

1 (3.1%)

0

13

Kohl, 2014

15

12.8

Prospective

9

TT

QT

2–4

4 (2–8)

0 (0)

NR

0

14

Calvo et al. 2015

27

13

Retrospective

10

TT

HT

2–4

10.6 (10–13)

5 (18.5%)

NR

0

15

Fauno, 2016

39

11.7

Prospective

11

TT

HT

NR

5.6. ± 2.8

1 (2.6%)

NR

0

16

Siebold, 2016

35

13.6

Retrospective

9

MP

HT

NR

3.4 + -1.3

9 (26.7%)

NR

0

17

Placella,2016

24

13.2 (

Retrospective

9

All inside

HT

1–5

8

0 (0)

NR

0

18

Pennoc, 2019

90

14.8

Retrospective

12

Outside in

QT (27),

HT (53)

NR

2.8

13 (14.4%)

QT: 1 (3.7%)

HT: 12 (22.6%)

10 (11.1%)

QT: 5 (18.5%)

HT: 5 (9.4%)

0

19

Astur, 2019

52

13.6

Retrospective

8

TT

HT

NR

7.4

18 (34.6%)

NR

0

20

Gosh, 2020

100

14 (8–16)

Prospective

12

MP

HT from living donor

1–5

2

12 (12.0%)

9 (9.0%)

0

21

Hanssen, 2022

193

12.5 (7–15)

Prospective

11

TT

HT

NR

6.9 (5–9)

24 (12.4%)

23 (11.9%)

NR

22

Kilkenny, 2022

86

12–15

Retrospective

10

MP

HT (59)

BTB (27)

NR

2

6 (7.0%)

HT: 6 (10.2)

BTB: 0 (0)

5 (5.8%)

HT: 3 (5.1%)

BTB: 2 (7.4%)

NR

 

Total

1010

       

111 (11.0%)

58 (9.7%)

2 (0.2%)

  1. 7
  2. TT Transtibial, MP Medial portal, BTB Bone patellar tendon bone, HT Hamstring tendon, QT Quadriceps tendon, NR Not reported