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Thirty\u2010seven consecutive patients with unilateral anterior cruciate ligament injuries undergoing elective reconstruction of the ligament were included in the study. They were aged 27 (range 14\u201350) years. The graft was harvested through two 25\u2010mm vertical incisions with the aim of protecting the infrapatellar nerve and sparing the paratenon. The tendon defect was left open. The patients underwent MRI evaluation at 6 weeks, 6\u00a0months and 27\u00a0months postoperatively. A final clinical follow\u2010up was made 25 (range 23\u201329) months postoperatively. MRI demonstrated that the donor\u2010site gap, i.e. the area corresponding to a pathological non\u2010tendinous\u2010like tissue signal, was 9 (range 4\u201318) mm at 6 weeks, 5 (range 2\u201314) mm at 6\u00a0months and 2 (range 0\u20135) mm at 27\u00a0months. The size of the donor\u2010site gap had significantly decreased at 6\u00a0months compared with 6 weeks (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.0001), as well as at 27\u00a0months compared with 6\u00a0months (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.0001). 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