The proximal posterior cartilage of the lateral femoral condyle can be used as a reference for positioning the femoral tunnel in ACL reconstruction.
Ricardo DE Paula Leite CuryLeandro Jun AiharaVictor Marques de OliveiraFelipe Monteiro UerlingsVictor Picchi ZacchariasLuiz Gabriel Betoni GuglielmettiPublished in: Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA (2022)
Given the similarity among the specimens in terms of the height of the ACL on the Y-axis in relation to the proximal posterior cartilage of the femoral lateral condyle (point C), this point can be used as an arthroscopic intraoperative parameter to define the position of the femoral tunnel in ACL reconstruction for single- or double-bundle techniques.