Biomechanical study on the effect of twisted human patellar tendon

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 756-760

  Thambyah, Ashvin ^a   Thiagarajan, Palanniappan ^a   C H Goh, James ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction; Graft mechanical properties

Indexed keywords

BONE; CADAVERIC EXPERIMENTS; GRAFTS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); JOINTS (ANATOMY); LIGAMENTS; TENDONS;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; GRAFT MECHANICAL PROPERTY; PATELLAR TENDON;

BIOMECHANICS;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PATELLA LIGAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 0034578864     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0033(00)00047-4     Document Type: Article

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