Fig 4.

The gracilis and semitendinosus tendons are hooked and pulled back together outside the skin incision. The tendons are laterally pulled to detach them from the tibial attachment. The gracilis and semitendinosus tendons are carefully separated by cutting the intertendinous bands with the scissors. Each end of the tendon is whipstitched with a No. 2 nonabsorbable suture (Ethicon). The semitendinosus tendon is pulled by the suture, after which point the first accessory tendinous band of the semitendinosus tendon is visible outside the skin and cut using scissors. This figure shows anteromedial side of the right knee in flexed position.