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Originally Posted by kalina82  CCL - cranial cruciate ligament
ACL - anterior cruciate ligament
they are both basically the same thing
you can have the anterior cruciate ligament and the posterior cruciate ligament or you can call them the cranial cruciate ligament and the caudal cruciate ligament.
cranial is to anterior as caudal is to posterior.
i believe ACL is used with humans and CCL is used with dogs. When describing the problem to the owner they usually understand ACL as oppose to CCL.
In dogs when a repairs is done its called a CCLr. crancial cruciate ligament repair. then there are the types of repairs (CCLr, TPLO, and TTA being most common). CCLr's are usually done with a fishing line type wire. TPLO and TTAs are done with metal hardware. |
thanks i was thinking it was a human to dog thing as in humans it is acl
so is the fishing wire cclr usually done in toy breeds as read that is what is usually done?