The effect of soft-tissue graft fixation in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction on graft-tunnel motion under anterior tibial loading

Arthroscopy

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 960-967

  Tsuda, Eiichi ^a   Fukuda, Yukihisa ^a   Loh, John C ^a   Debski, Richard E ^a   Fu, Freddie H ^a   Woo, Savio L Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament; Graft fixation; Graft tunnel motion; In situ force; Knee kinematics; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT REPLACEMENT GRAFT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RUPTURE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BIOMECHANICS; BONE SCREW; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLEXOR TENDON; GOAT; KINEMATICS; LIGAMENT SURGERY; NONHUMAN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE GRAFT;

EID: 0036873168     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jars.2002.36112     Document Type: Article

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