ABSTRACT
Introduction: Anterior cruciate ligaments (ACL) and posterior cruciate ligaments (PCL) are tough band of fibrousstructures extending between tibia and femur. Cruciate ligaments are at risk of injury in sports personnel.Injured ligaments are treated by reconstruction surgeries which require the morphometric understanding.Therefore, this study intended to find the length and width of ACL and PCL in cadavers and by MRI in healthyindividuals.Material and methods: Thirty embalmed cadaver knees were dissected to expose the ligaments. Length and widthof the ligaments was measured by the Vernier’s calipers. Thirty MRIs of knee joint with no previous detected kneepathology were obtained and reviewed. The data was tabulated for statistical analysis. Student‘t’ test was usedfor comparison. P value <0.05 was considered as statistically significant.Results: In the cadavers, ACL was significantly longer than PCL in length (p <0.014). PCL width was larger than ACLwidth (p <0.001).Conclusion: The present study contributes to the relative morphometric data on ACL and PCL and stresses that PCLis shorter and wider than ACL making it a more stable structure.