Stress radiography to document cruciate ligament function

Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-10

  Staubli H U ^a  

^a Surgical Clinic   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament; Compartmental knee motion; Knee function; Limits of motion; Posterior cruciate ligament; Rotation; Stress radiography; Translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141448246     PISSN: 10628592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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