Failure of clinical methods in assessing graft integrity after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: An arthroscopic evaluation

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-34

  Passler, Joerg M ^a,c   Babinski, Kary ^b   Schippinger, Gert ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

ACL Reconstruction; Arthroscopy; Graft integrity; KT 1000

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE FUNCTION; LIGAMENT SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATELLA TENDON; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROGRAPHY; ARTHROSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0032952898     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/ar.1999.v15.0150021     Document Type: Article

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