Anterolateral ligament

The Anterolateral ligament (ALL) (Latin anterolateral ligament ) is a ligament on the outside of the human knee, between the thigh bone and shin. The band originates next to the outer band on the lateral epicondyle of the femur, extends obliquely forward and downward and attaches to the forward outside ( anterolateral ) facing surface of the tibial head. Its importance and autonomy ware long disputed. It is intended to stabilize the knee joint side, a crack of the belt could be a cause for the pivot-shift phenomenon.

The surgeon Steven Claes and Johan Belleman the Belgian University of Leuven published the discovery of the band in August 2013 in the journal "Journal of Anatomy."

The French surgeon Paul Ferdinand Segond described the band in 1789 already as the " pearl -colored, resistant, fibrous band ". The Swiss knee surgeon Werner Müller 1982 described in the manual " The Knee " the band as " anterior femorotibial ligament ".