The Anterior Cruciate Ligament: Reconstruction and Basic Science

Abstract

Chadwick C. Prodromos, editor. Philadelphia: Saunders; 2008. 650 pages. $229.00. ISBN: 978-1-4160-3834-4 . The Anterior Cruciate Ligament: Reconstruction and Basic Science is a single-volume comprehensive text. Chadwick Prodromos is a fellowship-trained sports-medicine orthopaedist in Chicago, who specializes in knee surgery and notably devised a posterior mini-incision to harvest hamstring grafts. He collaborated with eight associate editors who are established pioneers in knee surgery. In the preface, they convincingly present the need for a comprehensive textbook on the anterior cruciate ligament—one which presents “the essence of the world's accumulated clinically relevant ACL-related knowledge.” The editors and invited authors (as well as their colleagues, research assistants, clinical fellows, residents, and others) have produced eighty-one chapters and more than 600 pages of text. The textbook …