A knee ligament graft harvested from the patient's own quadriceps tendon.
QT autograft uses a strip of the quadriceps tendon, often with a bone block from the patella, to reconstruct a torn ligament (most commonly the ACL). It is valued for its large cross-sectional area and graft thickness, with donor-site morbidity and anterior knee pain generally reported as intermediate between bone-patellar-tendon-bone and hamstring tendon autografts, though comparative outcome data are still maturing relative to those older standards.
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