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  • Title: [Carbon fiber ligament replacement in the treatment of chronic instability of the external ankle joint ligament].
    Author: Kinzl L, Burri C, Neugebauer R.
    Journal: Zentralbl Chir; 1983; 108(19):1192-7. PubMed ID: 6649965.
    Abstract:
    Ligament repair should be considered when a patient has disabling pain with giving way and chronic instability of the ankle from old ruptures of the lateral ligaments. Because of some incontestable disadvantages using Watson-Jones-or similar techniques we prefer the alloplastic with carbon fibres to reconstruct the anterior talofibular and calcaneofibular ligaments. Imitating the physiological course and insertions of the ligaments we managed to achieve a permanent lateral stability in 51 cases out of an operated group of 54 patients.
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