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notchplasty

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English

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Etymology

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From notch +‎ -plasty, where "notch" refers to the intercondylar notch.

Noun

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notchplasty (plural notchplasties)

  1. The surgical enlargement of the intercondylar notch, creating space for an anterior cruciate ligament graft during knee reconstruction.
    • 2003, John B. McGinty, Stephen S. Burkhart, Operative Arthroscopy, page 354:
      Intraarticular visualization and suture placement are easier while the patient's knee is unstable and before notchplasty or osseous tunnel drilling can cause bleeding.
    • 2016, Mitsuo Ochi, Konsei Shino, Kazunori Yasuda, ACL Injury and Its Treatment, page 273:
      Therefore, the effects of notchplasty on the clinical outcome after anatomic double-bundle ACL reconstruction were evaluated in a cohort study.
    • 2017, Chadwick Prodromos, The Anterior Cruciate Ligament, page 220:
      Although some controversy exists regarding the necessity or extent of a notchplasty, a few fundamentals related to notchplasty cannot be debated.
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