Ligamento anterolateral de la rodilla ¿realidad o ficción?

Résumé

Recently, a ligament located on the lateral aspect of the knee, termedanterolateral ligament (ALL), and which connects the femur to the tibia, hasbeen discovered1. Several works, however, argue that ALL had been previouslydescribed by other authors. The first such description, from 1879, is that of theFrench surgeon Paul Segond7, who reported the structure to be a “pearly,resistant, fibrous band,” defining it as stabilizer of the lateral capsular ligamentby fibers of the iliotibial band (ITB). Since then, numerous researchers havemade reference to this structure under a variety of names, such as: “lateralcapsular ligament”4-5, “anterolateral femorotibial ligament”59, “mid-third lateralcapsular ligament”60-61, and anterior band of the lateral collateral ligament(LCL)3,62, until 2012, when Vincent et al.66 gave it the name it goes by today,that is, ALL of the knee. Though no definitive evidence indicates that theseterms refer to the same structure, there is a consensus regarding the presenceof a ligamentous structure originating in the lateral femoral epicondyle whosecourse runs to the anterolateral tibia and with an insertion posterior to Gerdy'stubercle (GT) on the anterolateral aspect of the proximal tibia1,67...