notchplasty
English edit
Etymology edit
notch + -plasty, where "notch" refers to the intercondylar notch.
Noun edit
notchplasty (plural notchplasties)
- The surgical enlargement of the intercondylar notch, creating space for an anterior cruciate ligament graft during knee reconstruction.
- 2003, John B. McGinty, Stephen S. Burkhart, Operative Arthroscopy, page 354:
- Intraarticular visualization and suture placement are easier while the patient's knee is unstable and before notchplasty or osseous tunnel drilling can cause bleeding.
- 2016, Mitsuo Ochi, Konsei Shino, Kazunori Yasuda, ACL Injury and Its Treatment, page 273:
- Therefore, the effects of notchplasty on the clinical outcome after anatomic double-bundle ACL reconstruction were evaluated in a cohort study.
- 2017, Chadwick Prodromos, The Anterior Cruciate Ligament, page 220:
- Although some controversy exists regarding the necessity or extent of a notchplasty, a few fundamentals related to notchplasty cannot be debated.