Featuring fifteen brand-new chapters and twenty thoroughly updated chapters, the Third Edition of this highly acclaimed volume describes the latest techniques for reconstructive knee surgery. The world's foremost experts share their approaches to extensor mechanism and patellofemoral reconstruction, meniscal repair and fixation, meniscal transplantation, cruciate ligament tunnel placement and fixation, graft harvesting, use of allografts, ACL, PCL, MCL and posterolateral corner reconstruction, opening-wedge osteotomy, computer assisted surgery, arthroscopic chondroplasty, microfracture, osteochondral plugs, chondrocyte transplantation, and pigmented villonodular synovitis resection. The contributors describe their preferred techniques in step-by-step detail and offer pearls and tips for improving results. The book is thoroughly illustrated with full-color, sequential, surgeon's-eye view intraoperative photographs, as well as drawings by noted medical illustrators. A companion Website offers the fully searchable text and an image bank.

Contributors
Acknowledgments
Series Preface
Preface

Ch. 1 Operating Room Environment 1
Ch. 2 Arthroscopic Lateral Release of the Patella with Electrocautery 13
Ch. 3 Anteromedial Tibial Tubercle Transfer 25
Ch. 4 Patellectomy 39
Ch. 5 Meniscus Repair: The Outside-In Technique 51
Ch. 6 Meniscus Repair: The Inside-Out Technique 69
Ch. 7 Meniscus Repair: The All-Inside Arthroscopic Technique 87
Ch. 8 Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction 101
Ch. 9 Arthroscope-Assisted Posterior Cruciate Ligament Repair/Reconstruction 117
Ch. 10 Posterolateral Corner Collateral Ligament Reconstruction 143
Ch. 11 Surgical Technique for Knee Dislocations 161
Ch. 12 High Tibial Osteotomy in Knees with Associated Chronic Ligament Deficiencies 185
Ch. 13 Arthroscopic Management of Intraarticular Tibial Fractures 213
Ch. 14 Arthroscopically-Assisted Fixation of Patella Fractures 229
Ch. 15 Open Reduction Internal Fixation of Intraarticular Fractures of the Tibia 235
Ch. 16 Arthroscopic Chondroplasty 255
Ch. 17 Osteochondritis Dissecans 279
Ch. 18 Arthroscopic Synovectomy 295

Subject Index 307