Lower Satisfaction and Inferior Outcomes Associated With Delayed Surgery for Chronic Quadriceps Tendon Ruptures: A Systematic Review
Matthew R. Bryan, Michael Mazzucco, Arsen Omurzakov, Alex E. White, Prashanth Kumar, Tyler Uppstrom, Nicolas Pascual‐Leone, Stephen O’Brien, Samuel A. Taylor · 2026
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Matthew R. Bryan and colleagues systematically reviewed surgery for chronic quadriceps tendon ruptures, the disabling tears of the tendon that straightens the knee, in a 2026 review. Chronic here means at least three weeks from injury to operation. Searching EMBASE, PubMed, and Cochrane between October 2023 and November 2024 under PRISMA rules, the team kept clinical studies of Level IV evidence or better in native knees.
Only ten studies, published between 1981 and 2022, qualified. Reported repair failure rates ranged widely, from zero to 33 percent across those series. Extensor lag, the knee's inability to fully straighten actively, was reported as a complication in five of the ten. Their title carries the clinical message: patients repaired late report lower satisfaction and worse results. They call for comparative studies with standardized outcomes before any technique can be recommended over another.
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| CREATOR | Matthew R. Bryan, Michael Mazzucco, Arsen Omurzakov, Alex E. White, Prashanth Kumar, Tyler Uppstrom, Nicolas Pascual‐Leone, Stephen O’Brien, Samuel A. Taylor |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34192 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |