Letter regarding 'effects of tension across the tendon repair site on tendon gap and ultimate strength'

摘要

We read with interest the study by Drs. Wu and Tang on the effects of tension across the tendon repair site on gapping and ultimate strength,1 The authors used a 4-strand cross-lock repair performed with a 2-strand suture in their study and refer to it as a new technique.We point out that the technique is not new. We have described the same repair in an earlier article in which the repair was named the "single cross-stitch locked repair with double-stranded suture."2 This repair used a cross-stitch locked repair similar to Sandow and MacMahon's3 repair. We agree with the authors that this repair is easy to perform.