Effects of knee flexion angle at graft fixation on the outcome of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 70-75

  Asahina, Shintaro ^a   Muneta, Takeshi ^a   Ishibashi, Toshiro ^a   Yamamoto, Haruyasu ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ACL reconstruction; Clinical outcome study; Knee flexion angle; LAD; Pretension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; JOINT STABILITY; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; TENDON GRAFT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROSCOPES; ENDOSCOPES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE INJURIES; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TENDON TRANSFER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030034159     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-8063(96)90222-4     Document Type: Article

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