Anterior knee laxity in young women varies with their menstrual cycle

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 154-156

  Deie, Masataka ^a   Sakamaki, Yukie ^b   Sumen, Yoshio ^a   Urabe, Yukio ^b   Ikuta, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; RELAXIN;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; JOINT LAXITY; JOINT STIFFNESS; KNEE DISEASE; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PROGESTERONE;

EID: 0036937269     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-001-0326-0     Document Type: Article

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