Posterior Approach to the Knee Wheeless

Description: S shaped skin incision is made, extending along the posterior border of biceps and its tendon on the upper lateral side of popliteal fossa, then transversely across the fossa and finally along lower medial side of fossa posterior to semitendinosus tendon;
- skin flaps are retracted and the deep fascia is incised in midline;
- small saphenous vein is ligated if necessary but sural nerve must be preserved; etc.
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics