ACL/PCL reconstruction: The role of double-bundle PCL reconstruction

Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 286-293

  Elkousy, Hussein A ^a,b   Harner, Christopher D ^a,b  

^a Orthopaedic Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament; Double bundle reconstruction; Posterior cruciate ligament

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ACUTE DISEASE; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; HUMAN; JOINT LAXITY; KNEE INSTABILITY; KNEE LIGAMENT INJURY; LIGAMENT SURGERY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATELLA TENDON; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; SPORT INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON GRAFT; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0142074347     PISSN: 10601872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1060-1872(03)00039-X     Document Type: Article

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