Comparative study of the clinical efficacy of all-inside and traditional techniques in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
Bai-Jing An, Yao-Ting Wang, Zhe Zhao, Ming-Xin Wang, Geng-Yan Xing
Bai-Jing An, Yao-Ting Wang, Zhe Zhao, Ming-Xin Wang, Geng-Yan Xing, Department of Sports Medicine, The Fourth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100000, China
Author contributions: Xing GY designed the research study; Wang YT, Zhao Z and Wang MX performed the research; An BJ analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript; All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Third Medical Center of PLA General Hospital Institutional Review Board, No. KY2021-040.
Informed consent statement: All study participants or their legal guardian provided informed written consent about personal and medical data collection prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report having no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Data sharing statement: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset available from the corresponding author at xinggengyan123@163.com.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement—checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement—checklist of items.
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https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Geng-Yan Xing, FCCP, Dean, Director, Doctor, Professor, Surgeon, Department of Sports Medicine, The Fourth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, No. 51 Fucheng Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100000, China. xinggengyan123@163.com
Received: November 20, 2022
Peer-review started: November 20, 2022
First decision: February 14, 2023
Revised: March 5, 2023
Accepted: April 4, 2023
Article in press: April 4, 2023
Published online: May 16, 2023