This acclaimed volume of the "Master Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery" series is now in its Second Edition - significantly expanded and updated to reflect the latest improvements in surgical technique. The world's foremost experts in reconstructive knee surgery describe their preferred techniques in step-by-step detail, explain the indications and contraindications, identify pitfalls and potential complications, and offer pearls and tips for improving results. The book is thoroughly illustrated with full-color, sequential, surgeon's-eye view intraoperative photographs, as well as drawings by a noted medical illustrator.This edition features thorough updates on all techniques and new chapters on meniscal fixation, cruciate graft harvesting, MCL reconstruction, arthroscopic lavage and chondroplasty, microfracture, osteochondral plugs, chondrocyte transplantation, arthroscopic synovectomy, and pigmented villonodular synovitis. The chapter on the ACL has been expanded to cover harvesting techniques of the hamstring, the patellar tendon, and the quadriceps tendon.