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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Vol 76, Issue 3 403-412, Copyright © 1994 by Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

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Abnormality of the contralateral ligament after injuries of the medial collateral ligament. An experimental study in rabbits

CB Frank, B Loitz, R Bray, D Chimich, G King and N Shrive
University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

The right medial collateral ligament of ninety-four adult, female rabbits was transected operatively. At three, six, fourteen, or forty weeks after the operation, the uninjured, contralateral (left) medial collateral ligaments of seventy-eight of the animals were tested biomechanically and compared with the left medial collateral ligaments of thirty-three normal female rabbits. The diameters of the mid-substance collagen fibrils in the medial collateral ligaments were also measured in the uninjured, contralateral hindlimbs of four animals at each interval and compared with the fibril diameters in three normal animals at each of three corresponding intervals. Subtle but significant differences between the uninjured, contralateral and the normal medial collateral ligaments with regard to biomechanical properties of collagen fibril diameters were found at all time-intervals. These results support the notion of a significant effect on the contralateral ligament after an injury to the medial collateral ligament and suggest that contralateral ligaments cannot be considered as a normal control group even in this relatively benign model of knee injury.
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