Posterolateral Bundle Resection for an Anterior Cruciate Ligament Ganglion Cyst

Graeme P Hopper; Lampros Gousopoulos; Brodie Rowlands; Abdo El Helou; Corentin Philippe; Thais Dutra Vieira; Bertrand Sonnery-Cottet

doi:10.1016/j.eats.2023.02.012

Posterolateral Bundle Resection for an Anterior Cruciate Ligament Ganglion Cyst

Arthrosc Tech. 2023 May 1;12(6):e831-e835. doi: 10.1016/j.eats.2023.02.012. eCollection 2023 Jun.

Authors

Graeme P Hopper^{1

2}, Lampros Gousopoulos², Brodie Rowlands³, Abdo El Helou², Corentin Philippe², Thais Dutra Vieira², Bertrand Sonnery-Cottet²

Affiliations

¹ National Health Service, Lanarkshire University Hospitals, Glasgow, Scotland.
² Centre Orthopédique Santy, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Groupe Ramsay-Générale de Santé, Hopital Privé Jean Mermoz, Lyon, France.
³ University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.

Abstract

The incidence of intra-articular ganglion cysts of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is low and symptomatic presentation of this pathology is even lower. Nevertheless, symptomatic cases pose a real challenge for the orthopaedic community, as no general consensus exists regarding the most appropriate treatment. The purpose of this Technical Note is to describe the surgical treatment of an ACL ganglion cyst by arthroscopic resection of the entire posterolateral bundle of the ACL in a figure-of-four position after conservative treatment has failed.