Poster 18. Coronal Plane Alignment After Pre-Pubertal ACL Reconstruction: Results From the PLUTO Study Group
Joshua T Bram, Meghan Whalen, Subrina Farah, 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 J Micheli, Matthew D Milewski, Jeffrey J Nepple, Shital N Parikh, Paul Saluan, Kevin Shea, Eric Wall, Samuel C Willimon, Mininder S Kocher, Peter D Fabricant · 2026
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Bram and the PLUTO Study Group present in 2026, as conference poster 18, a multicenter check on knee ligament reconstruction in pre-pubertal children. It asks whether the surgery bends the growing leg out of alignment. The two operations studied both deliberately avoid the growth plates.
The prospective cohort compared 77 children who had the modified MacIntosh reconstruction, which uses the iliotibial band, with 35 who had an all-epiphyseal reconstruction. Alignment films were taken about a year after surgery. No alignment measure differed between the techniques, and the between-leg changes were generally tiny. Yet about a third of children in each group shifted at least one alignment zone, and up to a fifth shifted a key angle by five degrees or more. Three children developed growth disturbances needing monitoring or corrective surgery, all after the MacIntosh operation.
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| CREATOR | Joshua T Bram, Meghan Whalen, Subrina Farah, 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 J Micheli, Matthew D Milewski, Jeffrey J Nepple, Shital N Parikh, Paul Saluan, Kevin Shea, Eric Wall, Samuel C Willimon, Mininder S Kocher, Peter D Fabricant |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 6 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |