Poster 16. Changes in Coronal Plane Alignment After Transphyseal ACL Reconstruction Performed Within 2 Years of Skeletal Maturity: Results From the PLUTO Study Group
Joshua T. Bram, Meghan Whalen, Farah Subrina, Grace Saville, Dai Sugimoto, Daniel W. Green, Theodore J. Ganley, John Lawrence, Crystal Perkins, Michael Busch, Andrew Pennock, Henry Chambers, Eric Edmonds, Frank A. Cordasco, Christian Anderson, Benton E. Heyworth, Matthew Matava, Lyle Micheli, Matthew D. Milewski, Jeffrey J. Nepple, Shital N. Parikh, Paul Saluan, Kevin Shea, Eric Wall, Samuel Willimon, Mininder S. Kocher, Peter D. Fabricant · 2026
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Bram and the PLUTO Study Group present in 2026, as conference poster 16, a prospective check on leg alignment after transphyseal knee ligament reconstruction. The teenagers studied were within two years of finishing growth. This technique threads the graft through the growth plate, which carries a small risk of bending the leg.
The multicenter cohort included 99 patients, evenly split by sex. Alignment films were taken about a year after surgery, and changes were judged against the uninjured leg to cancel out natural growth. Median changes were small on every measure, and no patient developed a leg length difference of a centimeter or more. Still, about a third of patients shifted at least one mechanical axis zone, and roughly one in seven shifted a key angle by five degrees or more. No growth complication required intervention during the year.
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| CREATOR | Joshua T. Bram, Meghan Whalen, Farah Subrina, Grace Saville, Dai Sugimoto, Daniel W. Green, Theodore J. Ganley, John Lawrence, Crystal Perkins, Michael Busch, Andrew Pennock, Henry Chambers, Eric Edmonds, Frank A. Cordasco, Christian Anderson, Benton E. Heyworth, Matthew Matava, Lyle Micheli, Matthew D. Milewski, Jeffrey J. Nepple, Shital N. Parikh, Paul Saluan, Kevin Shea, Eric Wall, Samuel Willimon, Mininder S. Kocher, Peter D. Fabricant |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 5 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |