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SUBMITTER: Kukreja M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6554358 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Arthroscopy techniques 20190411 5
Post-traumatic knee stiffness can present after injuries around the knee and surgery. Management is guided by the type of initial injury, amount of range-of-motion loss, time since injury, and cartilage status. Cases refractory to conservative management may conventionally be treated with manipulation under anesthesia (MUA), arthroscopic lysis of adhesions, or open quadricepsplasty. We describe our arthroscopic technique of lysis of adhesions with anterior interval release and intraoperative MUA ...[more]