| 摘要 |
A method and apparatus of making repairs with graft ligaments. In one form, the method for graft ligament reconstruction comprises (i) harvesting a graft ligament consisting entirely of soft tissue; (ii) compacting the graft ligament through compression so as to significantly reduce the cross-sectional area and increase the density of the collagen material of the graft ligament; and (iii) deploying the compressed graft ligament in the human body. In another form, the apparatus for graft ligament reconstruction comprises a graft ligament having a given diameter and a given cross-sectional area; and a compacting instrument having at least one surface to contact the graft ligament and to decrease the given cross-sectional area of the graft ligament to a reduced cross-sectional area, whereby the graft ligament with the decreased cross-sectional area may be positioned within a bone tunnel having a cross-sectional area smaller than the given cross-sectional area of the graft ligament in its original state.
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