Full-thickness quadriceps tendon: An easy cruciate reconstruction graft

Arthroscopy

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 781-783

  Slullitel, Daniel ^a,b   Blasco, Adrián ^a   Periotti, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ABIERTA INTERAMERICANA   (Argentina)

^b NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

ACL reconstruction; Central quadriceps tendon; Tendon graft

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RUPTURE; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; HUMAN; KNEE CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; PATELLA TENDON; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON GRAFT;

EID: 0035470552     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jars.2001.25326     Document Type: Article

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