Advanced knee ligament reconstruction

In patients with more severe knee injuries reconstruction of several ligament structures are needed along other soft-tissue structures such as menisci and cartilage. Multiligament surgery involved reconstruction of both cruciate and collateral ligaments. Reconstruction of multi-ligament injuries is an official highly specialized treatment in Denmark. Another area within advance ligament reconstruction is revision reconstructions for failured procedures. Both multiligament and revision reconstruction often require allograft tissue. Therefore the department has a functioning tissuebank that undertakes donation and storage of allograft tissue both bone at soft-tissue surgery.

Cartilage repair

Cartilage injuries have limited repair potential and therefore surgical treatment of symptomatic cartilage lesions involved various techniques of tissue transplantation and tissue engineering. Deep cartilage lesions are treated with cartilage or stemcells in combination with artificial tissue materials (scaffold). Another method involves transplantation of cartilage fragments from an area of unloaded healthy cartilage to the area of injuries cartilage. Joint surface lesion that involve both cartilage and bone such as seen in osteochondritis dissicans can be treated with combined transplantation of autologous bone and cartilage chips or with live allogenic joint surfaces.

Hip Arthroscopy

Hip Arthroscopy is a relatively new surgical treatment option for extra- and intrarticular hip joint conditions. Most successful is treatment of collision conditions between acetabulum and femur known as femuracetabular impingement. Numerous other conditions involving injury and pathology to labrum and cartilage in the hip joint is under investigation.

Pediatric knee surgery

Knee injuries in pediatric patients are rare. The conditions that require surgical management are cruciate ligament injuries, osteochondral fractures, meniscus root and cruciate ligament avulsions, severe patellofemoral dysplasia resulting in patella instability and subchondral diseases such as osteochondritis dissicans.