What's New in Adult Reconstructive Knee Surgery

The purpose of this update on adult reconstructive knee surgery is to discuss, in summary fashion, topics presented at selected orthopaedic meetings and published in related orthopaedic journals between January and December 2001. The sources for this review are articles published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American edition) and The Journal of Arthroplasty. The podium presentations mentioned in this article include those given at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (held in San Francisco, California, on February 28 through March 4, 2001), on Specialty Day at the meeting of The Knee Society (held in San Francisco, California, on March 3, 2001), and at the meeting of The American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (held in Dallas, Texas, on November 9 through 11, 2001). The Interim Meeting of the Knee Society was cancelled as a result of the events of September 11, 2001.