LYMPHADENOPATHY AFTER GORE-TEX ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION

The GORE-TEX (W. L. Gore & Associates, Flagstaff, Arizona) graft was u sed in humans for about 10 years starting in 1982. During that time th ousands of these ligaments were inserted.(4) In our hospital, 162 GORE -TEX cruciate reconstructions were performed between 1986 and 1993 usi ng a standard over-the-top technique. Two of these patients developed inguinal lymphadenopathy secondary to GORE-TEX particulate materials f rom the ipsilateral knee joint. To our knowledge, this is the first pa per describing the above-mentioned complication, which was established by histologic examination, including electron microscopy.