Bone tunnel enlargement after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: Fact or fiction?

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 231-240

  Hoher J ^a,b   Moller H D ^b   Fu, F H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

ACL reconstruction; Bone tunnel enlargement; Graft tunnel motion; Inflammation; Radiographic evaluation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BIOMECHANICS; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; TIBIA;

ADOLESCENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TIBIA;

EID: 0032245391     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001670050105     Document Type: Article

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