Thursday, June 14, 2007

Arthroscopic orientation

Orientation is tricky because the scope gets pretty zoomed in on a particular area, and it's hard to get a sense of the entire anatomical layout. Sweet images, though - Eric, you now have evidence you're as good-looking on the inside as on the outside...

Here's a step-by-step guide to a patellar tendon ACL reconstruction with images, it's helpful for identifying anatomy and instruments - ignore the bloody tendon harvesting.

Maybe this will help a bit:

2 comments:

brian said...

I got the heebie-jeebies.

brian said...

But the image with the landmarks noted was extremely helpful. Pretty amazing that you can do surgery looking through that.