[Clinical and tomographic evaluation of polyester prosthesis of the anterior crucial ligament made by TRICOMED in Lodz].
This study involves 38 patients in the age is 24-51 years with the III degree instability of the knee who underwent ACL replacement with PPT artificial ligament, beginning from 1986. For the majority the operation mentioned above was the second or even the third intervention after the previous ones, meniscectomy and suture repair included. In 6 patients, who underwent BJ plastic method, the return of the instability was observed. 24 patients were examined after an average follow up time of 34 months. 1 patient was operated on for the ligament replacement 4 years after the first operation, another one was operated on for synthetic arthritis one year after. Estimation of the results is based on clinical examination, subjective professional opinion and CT. 21 patients showed excellent results, which correspond with CT examination and confirm good quality of PPT ligament.