Fig 8.

(A) To facilitate the repair with a graft, a soft tissue tunnel is created on both the medial and the lateral sides and the graft is passed through the tunnel with the aid of passing sutures. (B) The quadriceps (QT) tendon can be visualized and the length of the graft limbs on the medial and lateral sides is checked to ensure that they correspond to the length of the defect to be repaired. (C) The limbs of the graft are crossed over the proximal pole of the patella and (D) the graft is sutured to the native healthy quadriceps tendon using a No. 2 nonabsorbable suture.